Connect What is your favorite type of art to create?

I’m drawn to multidisciplinary art that blends emotion, movement, texture, and storytelling. My work often moves between writing, ceramics, music, aerial arts, and visual art because different experiences ask for different mediums. I’m especially interested in art that feels honest and embodied; art that holds grief, tenderness, curiosity, survival, and beauty at the same time. I care less about perfection and more about crafting something that makes people feel seen. It is whatever moves me

Where do you find inspiration?

I find inspiration in music, movement, unfinished thoughts, and the quiet details people often overlook. A lyric, a conversation, changing light, an ordinary moment, or a feeling I can’t fully name can all spark a story in my mind. From there, it often evolves into aerial choreography, writing, or visual art. I’m deeply drawn to storytelling and the tension between beauty and ache, softness and survival, and the meaning hidden inside everyday life.

What would you do with $25,000?

I co-own a trauma-focused private therapy practice (I’m a trauma therapist), and I would use the $25,000 to expand access to mental health care for underserved communities. I would put the funding toward scholarship and reduced-fee therapy programs for clients who otherwise could not afford specialized trauma treatment. I would also invest in creative and community-based healing initiatives that make therapy feel more accessible, human, and sustainable for the people who need it most.