Academics

I am a graduate student at California Institute of Integral Studies, completing the master’s program in integral studies of ecology, spirituality, and religion. 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 ecogrief 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.

Conference Talks

Upcoming:

Working With Uncertainty Through a New Animist Experience of Fog

While on my paddle board early one morning, a thick fog rolled in, limiting what I could see to what was within a few feet. Unable to orient myself to...
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Small-Scale Rewilding: Benefits and Challenges to Restoring Habitat on Less Than an Acre

While protecting large swaths of wildlife habitat is essential for conservation, those habitats are often intersected by urban and suburban areas. Small-scale rewilding projects on less than an acre of...
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Nonviolent Engagement with Wildlife as a Hope Building Practice

Uncertainty created by the global crises of climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss creates anxiety and challenges one’s ability to feel hopeful and to act to mitigate or solve...
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The Spiritual Ecology Emerging From the Experience of Wildlife Rehabilitation

Wildlife rehabilitators and rescuers are partaking in intimate and transformative experiences with nonhuman animals regularly. They engage in perceptual reciprocity and cultivating personal ecosophies, and often act outside regulatory and...
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