This is where my love for the ocean and trees becomes something I can hold. I bridge the theoretical and the tangible, translating years of participatory research, program evaluation, and decolonial scholarship into visual form. I explore displacement, belonging, and cultural bridge-building: themes that run through both my academic work and my creative practice.

I use art as both scholarly inquiry and social justice advocacy. I design culturally responsive evaluation frameworks and employ mixed-methods research to amplify marginalized voices. My creative practice centers Indigenous methodologies and community-based knowledge production. Each piece represents a synthesis of rigorous research and lived experience: a way to communicate complex findings about colonization, resilience, and collective healing that transcends academic journals.

My community development work is grounded in the belief that those closest to the challenges hold the solutions. I design participatory spaces where youth take ownership of their narratives, where communities co-create knowledge systems that honor both Indigenous wisdom and contemporary scholarship. From establishing Madagascar's first Community of Practice for Social-Emotional Learning to facilitating cross-cultural learning experiences, I create containers for collective power-building and transformative change.

My art and my community development scholarship are two sides of the same coin. Both require the same methodological rigor: deep listening through participatory approaches, patience in co-developing culturally grounded tools, and the courage to challenge dominant narratives.