I am a graduate student at California Institute of Integral Studies. I have an M.A. in Ecology, Spirituality and Religion, and am currently pursuing a PhD in the same. My academic focus is an exploration of the story of the biodiversity crisis through the magic of human-wildlife encounters.

I am immensely curious about how Deep Ecology, phenomenology, and new animism provide a philosophical and ethical foundation for emerging spiritual ecologies and inform spiritual approaches to eco-grief support, especially for wildlife conservation activists and ecological caregivers like wildlife rehabilitators.

Throughout my life I have believed that biodiversity loss and ecosystem disruption were stories for science. My research challenged that assumption and my current work invites an interdisciplinary re-storying of life on Earth.