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Hi! I live in Seattle and I’ve been involved with Bridges to Understanding since 2004. After two years as a weekly volunteer classroom mentor with Bridges classrooms in Seattle, I joined the staff in 2006, and now serve as Program Director. Since joining Bridges I’ve taught in numerous digital storytelling workshops in Seattle as well as at our international sites in Guatemala, Peru and India. I also manage the Bridges web site and develop curriculum. I love teaching and working with youth to help them photograph, produce and share their stories.

I came to Bridges through photography: I am fascinated by the odd details and everyday beauty of the places in which we live, and I’m interested in telling stories of people and places through photographs.

I'm looking forward to being part of this community ! Thanks!

I'm a wanderer.

I've been a writer, a director, an actor, a teacher, a photographer, a cook and a tech worker. In my chameleon-like existence, some skills are short term loans, others stick with me like old friends.

Digital storytelling has interested me since the early days of "Joe's Digital Diner," but I did not begin creating my own digital stories until many years later.

My primary interest is the way language is changing- becoming more visual, more immediate. Still, my literary roots will not let me give up the written word. I think it still has a significant role to play in digital storytelling. How that all works- I dunno. I'm just playing. Today stories are more like toys- they are built to delight, to mystify, to engage, to share an experience. I want to keep making better toys. The challenge is to not take it so seriously that the "mission" gets in the way of the telling, or the joy.