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My Intimacy Qualifications

I have structured my training and experience below within SAG-AFTRA's recently released intimacy guidelines, and have included a few additional categories specific to my own work, but this page is not all-encompassing of my skills and experience. If you are curious about specific projects or my style of working, reach out!

Queer & Trans Specific Intimacy

Extensive queer & trans personal experience, activism, and training
Queer & Trans Sex ed workshop series, Queer&Now (2019-20)
Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2017)
Facilitated LGBTQ+ Graduate Student Support Group (2015-2017)
Stonewall Center Sensitivity & Inclusivity workshop (2014, 2015)
Co-ran a Trans non profit, Gender Warriors (2011-2014)
​Conference Paper "Transgender Sexual Health," Come Together Kentucky (2012) ​

Consent & Boundaries

Stage Managers & Intimacy, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2022)
​Intimacy on Set with Ita O'Brien, INDIs Film Festival (2022) 
​Consent in the Acting Classroom, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2021)
​Intimacy Choreography: The Basics, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2019, 2021)

Anti-Racism, Race in Intimacy

Introduction to Interracial Bodies in Romance Scenes, Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (2023)
Osunality: African Eroticism and Non-Phallocentric Sex, ISEE/Institute for Sex Education & Enlightenment (2023)
Considerations for Indigenous Intimacies, Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (2023)
Anti-Racism Training, Diversity & Resiliency Institute of El Paso (2022)
How to respond to anti-Asian/American harassment, Right To Be (formerly Hollaback!) (2022)
Foundations of Race, Intimacy, and Consent, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2021)
Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Workshop, TransHealth (2021)
Diversity Lecture Series: Anti-Racist Classrooms, UMass Amherst (2017)

Trauma-Informed Practices

CPR Certified, Institute for Wild Med (2024)
First Aid Certified, Institute for Wild Med (2024)
Mental Health First Aid Certified, National Council for Mental Wellbeing (2022)
​Trauma-informed Creative Practices, Momentum Stage (2022)
Trauma-informed Practices, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2021)
Conference Paper "Using Theater to Dismantle Internalized Oppressions: an Introduction to Cops in the Head," Trans Futurity Symposium (2016)

Choreography & Staging

Laban Motif Writing Basics for Movement Specialists, Momentum Stage (2023)
Staging Sex: Musical Theater, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2023)
Staging Sex: Polyamory, Non-Monogamy, and Playing in Groups, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2023)
Staging Sex: Power Play, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2022)
Staging Sex: Outercourse, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2022)
Staging Sex: Intercourse, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2022)
​Voicing Sex, Intimacy Coordinators of Color (2022)
Laban for Actors, Momentum Stage (2022)
Kiss & Masking Choreography, National Society of Intimacy Professionals (2022)
Intimacy Direction intensive, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2019)
​Training in Laban, Viewpoints, Physical Theater

Bystander Intervention & Anti-Harassment

Bystander Intervention to Stop Antisemitic Harassment, Right To Be (formerly Hollaback!) (2023)
Bystander Intervention: How to be an ally when you witness online abuse, Right To Be (formerly Hollaback!) (2022)
Bystander Intervention 2.0: Conflict De-Escalation Training, Right To Be (formerly Hollaback!) (2022)
Stand Up Against Street Harassment Training, Right To Be (formerly Hollaback!) (2022)
Training in Identifying Microagressions and Adopting Inclusive Language for our Industry, USITT (2019)
Anti-Harassment & Bullying workshop for Faculty, UMass (2014, 2016, 2019, 2022)
​Extensive Boal training (12+ years), empty chair, Theater of the Oppressed, community calls to action

Other

Pregnancy & Intimacy, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2024)
Sex Work on Stage & Screen, Theatrical Intimacy Education (2024)
Demystifying Sex Work, ​ISEE/Institute for Sex Education & Enlightenment (2023)
Disabilities & Intimacy, National Society of Intimacy Professionals (2023)
​Knots, Nots, Naughty Knots, Kindling Collective (2023)
Scene Work with Kink & BDSM, Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (2022)
​Rogue Ropes shibari/rigging 1-4, Rogue Project (2019)

Additional Competencies

Staging Kink & BDSM: impact play, power play, D/s, bondage & restraint, rigging & shibari, wax play, various other competencies
Staging Intimacy for Disabled folx: training in assistive devices, Deaf cultural competence training
​Staging Intimacy for fat folx
​Working with students