curriculum vitae

education

MFA Digital Art and New Media: Experimental Play | 2020–2022 | University of California, Santa Cruz

Thesis: blood play: a queer gothic approach to game design
Advisor: Elizabeth Swensen

BA Art and Design: Games and Playable Media | 2016–2020 | University of California, Santa Cruz

work experience

University of California, Santa Cruz — Lecturer | 2022–present

ARTG/CRES 139 queer & trans art & games (winter 2025)
ARTG 40-01 designing experiences (winter 2025)
ARTG 40-02 designing experiences (winter 2025)
ARTG/CRES 139 queer & trans art & games (fall 2024)
ARTG 180 personal narrative in play (fall 2024)
ARTG 25 games as art & activism (fall 2024)
ARTG 40 designing experiences (summer 2024)
COSMOS Cluster 5 Video Game Design (summer 2024)
ARTG 129-01 queer horror (spring 2024)
ARTG 137 Experimental Tabletop RPG Design (spring 2024)
ARTG 25 games as art & activism (spring 2024)
ARTG 20 games as art (winter 2024)
ARTG 129-01 queer horror (winter 2024)
ARTG 181 Portfolio + Artistic Authorship (winter 2024)
ARTG 170-01 Game Design Studio I (fall 2023)
ARTG 40 Designing Experiences (fall 2023)
COSMOS Cluster 5 Video Game Design (summer 2023)
ARTG 172-02 Game Design Studio III (spring 2023)
ARTG 129 queer horror: media and games (spring 2023)
ARTG 80G visual communication & interaction (winter 2023)
DANM 280 graduate seminar (winter 2023)
ARTG 80G visual communication & interaction (fall 2022)
DANM 147 intro to queer game (summer 2022)
COSMOS Cluster 5 Video Game Design (summer 2022)

Recycle Bookstore West — Bookseller | 2022–present

University of California, Santa Cruz — Teaching Assistant | 2020–2022

ARTG/CMPM 172 Game Design Studio (spring 2022)
ARTG/CMPM 171 Game Design Studio (winter 2022)
ARTG/CMPM 170 Game Design Studio (fall 2021)
COSMOS Cluster 5 Video Game Design (summer 2021)
ARTG/CMPM 172 Game Design Studio (spring 2021)
ARTG/CMPM 171 Game Design Studio (winter 2021)
ARTG/CMPM 170 Game Design Studio (fall 2020)

UCSC Dining — Catering Administrative Student Worker | 2018–2020

Loot Crate — QA Intern | summer 2017

games and artworks

released

the story of our love (2024)
ritual (2023)
chased (2022)
descent (2022)
turning (2021)
feeding (2021)
distance (2021)
mlm (2020)
The Women of Hopper Avenue (2020)
Forever Aloe (2019)
Pointy Dice Are Fun (2019)
ShittyQuest (2018)

game jam submissions

Three Cards (2024)
thoroughly damned (2024)
the daily pull (2024)
Imperfectly Perfect (2023)
DEJA NOOT (2021)
Rainbow Robe (2019)

in development

the house (2023)
The Champions of Hecate: The Lost Gods (2023)
Into the Gaping Maw (2023)
crab clicker (2022)

prototypes

bus stop (2024)
name generator (2024)
royal rumble (2023)
memory book (2022)
haunted house v0.0.1 (2022)
twine incremental (2022)
tarot print and draw (2021)
grim home (2020)
fuck the sea (2020)
endless runner (2019)