Making a good life since 2010
I’ve been working on this list of 30+ Black women and gender diverse community leaders who are over 65. With the passing of local African Nova Scotian activist Eddie Carvery and Rev. Jesse Jackson it seems important to share rather than waiting. Don’t wait to give people their flowers. Everyone on this list is still alive [ ]
“All the whiteness was getting on my nerves.” — Howardena Pindell on why she made “Free, White and 21.” (1980), New York Times, 2025 Howardena Pindell is almost 83 years old and still making art in her New York studio. The first Black curator at the Museum of Modern Art, she also co-founded A.I.R. Gallery [ ]
Project: Virtual producer of the 2025 Jews for Racial and Economic Justie (JFREJ) Mazals responsible for virtual run of show, coordinating with special guests, and event facilitation. Designed Diasporspritz printable and marketing content for JFREJ newsletter. Also virtual emcee of the 2024 Virtual Mazals program. Date: September 2025
Want to find Courage? Let compassion be your compass. Don’t go looking for the one yelling the loudest at the front of the crowd, Courage isn’t always some powerhouse full of fire and fury. Courage is often a quiet thing who visits us in daily decisions and unsung moments. Courage is the girl sold on the [ ]
Found in my grandmother Ana Brom’s notebooks tucked between instructions on dying wool and sketches for clothing designs are “notes to a little schmuck”, as she referred to herself. Born Ann Doris Rosen in Brooklyn, New York in February 1930 to Jewish parents Clara Brom and Simon Rosen, she died on Vancouver Island, unknown to [ ]
🧵Stitching The Blues🪡 Mixed media experiments — stitched and felted hand dyed wool, remnants of my Nana Ana Brom’s hand dyed silks (and her thread scissors), beads a tiny message in a bottle sealed with beeswax.
Imagine that hell is a dinner party. There is a long table in a grand hall filled with delicious food but the guests are miserable. No one is able to eat because they are forced to use long spoons that cannot reach their mouths. They have so much but they are still starving and suffering. Imagine [ ]
Project: The Biscuit Eater Cafe Books From 2016-2022 my family owned and operated a rural cafe and bookstore with a focus on community care. I commissioned illustrator Kat Frick Miller to illustrate our building that was built in 1775 and one of the oldest in town. I designed all the branding, marketing materials, decor, [ ]
Project: Jews for Racial and Economic Justicec (JFREJ) Israel-Palestine Shabbat Guide Date: November 2023-January 2024