If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.
Maker Mamma
Making with Meaning
And Thinkering for Fun
I have loved making things forever and consider myself to be a “uni-brain”. My brain is completely cross-wired, blending the technical with the abstract, and the precise with the organic, impacting my approach to everything. I could fill this page with decades of stuff I’ve created. As time goes by, I will add more past, present and future passion projects and flights of fancy.
For now, I want to share with you, three pivotal experiences that were milestones in my life-long learning journey. They were not only filled with the “stuff” of things, but more importantly, the people who mentored me while I mastered the art of falling down and getting back up again.
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These foundational journeys elevated my experience as a
human being + educator + artist + techno geek girl
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The Cloud Foundation
The ArtScience Prize
Modeled after Cloud Foundation founder, Professor David A. Edwards Harvard class, How to Create things and Make Them Matter, the ArtScience Prize was a [Read More]
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Genzyme Pharmaceuticals
Expression of Hope
While actively working on developing a cure, Genzyme Pharmaceuticals (US) created the Expression of Hope Project to bring global awareness to rare enzyme diseases. [Read More]
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MassArt
IMLS Ed Tech Federal Grant
In 2005, I secured the very first federal grant for Massachusetts College of Art and Designs in Boston. MassArt’s Looking to Learn program received funding from [Read More]