I grew up in southeast Michigan and studied Creative Writing at The University of Michigan. After college, I moved to California and spent the next 11 years doing stand up and sketch comedy, writing for shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade and The Pack theaters. I returned home in 2023 to learn woodworking and graduated from Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute’s Furniture Design program in 2024. I am now the Vice President of Continuing Education at SBWI and teach woodworking and upholstery.
I discovered woodworking through my own means while living in California. However, when I came home to Michigan to attend woodworking school, I was reminded that I come from generations of highly skilled carpenters and sewists. One night my mom and I dug through a box of linens she inherited from her mother, grandmother and great grandmother. I am now most inspired by these vintage and antique fabrics, along with stories of the family parties they adorned; adults drinking cocktails and playing cards while kids bounce around the basement, women in fur coats posing for photographs with family friends who later became legends and punchlines, admired and missed.
Through my work, I want to carry on family traditions. Not only the tradition of building and sewing, but also gathering, laughing and generosity. I believe in finding joy in everyday life, in the quiet importance objects have in turning a space into a story. I aim to create furnishings that rest in the background of other people’s treasured memories and travels with them through their life.
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