About

Belonging is what it feels like when we can draw on and contribute to our collective knowledge, now and across time. 

I've spent my working life in rooms where people seek to build belonging through learning — museums, informal education settings, study halls — trying to understand how it happens when it does.

Formally: a doctorate in anthropology of education from Stanford, an MA in learning experience design from Columbia, and a BA in theater from Yale. My PhD and much of my subsequent work are in Jewish communities, which is the case I know best and an unusually well-documented one, since it's a tradition that has spent two thousand years arguing about how knowledge works and feels, in writing.

I am also the founder of the House of Inquiry and Imagination [LINK]. There, I design experiences of belonging for people in rooms, including a social party game about Talmudic argument, a tabletop RPG rooted in Jewish hermeneutics, and a play-as-witnessing-session about reading old texts to find ourselves.