Teaching & Conversations

workshops • song coaching • artist interviews

Workshop Leader
• Hindman Songwriters Retreat
• Rain Crows Songwriting Group
• The Grove KY
• Living Newspapers Teacher’s Professional Development sessions
• Gateway to America’s Songs: Kentucky Traditional Music Songwriting Workshop
• Suwannee Springfest
• Cowan Creek Mountain Music School
• Junk Journals & Jams with Jenn Tackett
• Bones & Ballads (coming in 2027)

Host / Artist Interviews
• Willie Edward Taylor Carver / Tore All to Pieces book reading, Gateway Regional Arts Center
• Dr. Stephen Aron / Kentucky250 Webinar, Gateway Regional Arts Center
• Dale Ann Bradley / Hindman Songwriters Retreat
• Peter Rowan / Your Roots Are Showing

Cultural & Collaborative Work

events • research • writing • business development

Current Roles:
Special Projects Manager
Gateway Regional Arts Center (GRAC)
Oral History Specialist
University of Kentucky

Project Manager/Partnerships
• The Sweet Story of Ruth Hunt and Kentucky Pulled Cream Candy oral history project and radio play in partnership with the University of Kentucky (GRAC)
• DuBois: Out of the Ashes oral history archival project in partnership with Berea College (GRAC)

Event Coordination
• Living Newspapers: Library of Congress Teacher’s Professional Development Session (GRAC)
• Gateway to America’s Songs: Kentucky Traditional Music Workshop, Shape Note Singing event, and Día de Los Muertos performance (GRAC)
• IBMA World of Bluegrass, Black String Band Symposium

Writer/Researcher
• Kentucky’s Revolution: America250 Educational Panels (GRAC)
• Mississippi Culinary Trail (MDA Division of Tourism)
• The Choctaw Journey (Mississippi Public Broadcasting)

Business Development/Sponsors & Partnerships
• International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), World of Bluegrass event (2022-2025)
• Your Roots Are Showing (2025)

Songs, Page, & Stage

albums • poetry • performances

Current Musical Projects
Swift Silver
Thinking Like a Mountain