Personal Essay

Dream Home(less). Livina Press. Spring 2025. [Available in Print]

This personal essay explores a season of displacement, as my family faced transitional homelessness following a collapsed home purchase during a summer of historic flooding in the Midwest. Moving through instability and uncertainty, the piece reflects on resilience, impermanence, and the search for a sense of home.

Arts & Culture Journalism

Critical writing on contemporary art, artists, exhibitions, and cultural institutions.

Exploring Route 66’s Public Art Trail. Art Focus Magazine. Summer 2026. [Read]

As Route 66 marks its centennial in 2026, Oklahoma is seizing the moment with a public art project as iconic as the highway itself. The Route 66 Public Art Trail, developed through the Oklahoma Arts Council's statewide Art in Public Places program, will feature a series of large-scale artworks in communities along Oklahoma's more than 400 miles of the Mother Road. 

Sunny Dayz Mural Fest heads to Claremore with inclusive art, OKC artists. Oklahoma City Free Press. May 16, 2026. [Read]

The Sunny Dayz Mural Festival is returning to transform the town of Claremore with 27 large-scale murals created by 38 selected artists across its Lilac District on May 30th. Founded in 2021 The nonprofit festival brings together mural artists in a different Oklahoman city each year for a celebration built around the philosophy that public art belongs to everyone. 

Paul Reed: A Retrospective. Art Focus. Winter 2026. [Read]

Explores the work of Paul Reed, a key figure in the Washington Color School, through the Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s 2026 exhibition. Featuring insights from guest curator David Gariff, the piece situates Reed’s work within the broader history of postwar American abstraction.

Wall Flowers: Pat Gordon’s Career-Spanning Retrospective. Art Focus. Fall 2025. [Read]

An analysis of Wall Flowers, a retrospective of Patrick Gordon at the Philbrook Museum of Art, focusing on the artist’s detailed still lifes and narrative approach to composition.

Artist Spotlight Interview: Jamie Nakagawa Boley. Aji Magazine. Spring 2023. *No longer in circulation. [Read]

This artist interview features painter and Fresno State professor Jamie Nakagawa Boley, exploring her creative process, sources of inspiration, and the influence of her heritage, including connections to Native American traditions. The conversation also examines her recent work, which reflects the shifting landscapes of central California.

Believing is Seeing: Artist Helen Fukuhara. Aji Magazine. Fall 2021. *No longer in circulation. [Read]

This interview with Helen Fukuhara explores her development as a visually impaired artist working in tactile media. The conversation considers her artistic approach, the influence of her father, watercolorist Henry Fukuhara, and the role of her musical training in shaping her work.

Review: Kiki Smith and Paper: The Body, the Muse, and the Spirit. Art Focus Oklahoma. Winter 2018. [Read]

Examines Kiki Smith and Paper: The Body, the Muse and the Spirit, an exhibition at the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art. Through a close reading of the exhibition’s thematic structure, the piece explores Smith’s engagement with the body, archetypal female figures, and spirituality, situating the work within broader concerns of narrative and personal mythology.

Corner: Lynn Basa’s Community Art Experience. School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Grad Journal. Summer 2016. [No longer in circulation]

This article examines the work of Chicago-based artist Lynn Basa, focusing on her engagement with public art and community-centered practice. The piece highlights her project Corner, an artist-run space that encouraged public participation and expanded access to creative experiences.

Disability, Accessibility & Inclusion Journalism

Reporting and essays on disability rights, accessibility, neurodiversity, and inclusive educational design.

DOJ memo could threaten disability rights gains for Oklahomans. Oklahoma City Free Press. July 7, 2026. [Read]

For nearly three decades, federal law has been understood to provide people with disabilities the right to receive services in their communities rather than institutions, but a new memo from the Justice Department is challenging that understanding – and Oklahoma disability rights advocates are paying close attention.

EMBARK driving accessibility, assistance for public transit in OKC. Oklahoma City Free Press. June 21, 2026. [Read]

Accessible transportation can be the difference between isolation and independence, but for many Oklahoma City residents with disabilities, driving or using standard public transit isn’t always possible. That’s why EMBARK – the umbrella organization for multiple public transportation options across OKC and beyond – provides a wide range of accessibility services for seniors, foster youth, families in the child welfare system, and riders with disabilities across the city, providing access to schools, workplaces, grocery stores, and critical medical appointments.

Ability Connection Oklahoma helping Okies find speech, spirit, support. Oklahoma City Free Press. May 9, 2026. [Read]

An OKC-based non-profit is helping Oklahomans with disabilities to communicate, move, and play, and even after seven decades in the game, they’re still going strong. Founded in 1957, OKC-based Ability Connection Oklahoma – or ACOK – is a nonprofit with a mission to support independence and full participation for individuals with disabilities, including those with cerebral palsy.

Challenging Visual Assumptions in the News. The Word. May 7, 2026. [Read]

Journalists are trained to reach the public. But for many readers with vision loss, the barrier to a story isn’t interest; it’s often access. Small, deliberate changes in how stories are structured and described can meaningfully widen access, ensuring that more readers are not only included, but fully able to engage with the work.

Designing for Everyone: Practical Ways to Build Accessible Learning Experiences in Canvas. Instructure. April 2026. [Read]

An educational guide for instructors on disability accessibility topics including (1) prevalence of disability in the United States, (2) the costs of resisting accessibility in educational settings, (3) how teaching asynchronously through Canvas LMS can support students with disabilities, (4) how to use accessibility tools within Canvas, and (5) the ethical and moral imperative to prioritize accessibility in education.

Support, events, creative power mark World Autism Month in OKC. Oklahoma City Free Press. April 11, 2026. [Read]

A reported piece covering World Autism Month in Oklahoma City, exploring how local organizations are expanding autism awareness, building community support, and advocating for neurodivergent individuals and their families across all stages of life.