About

I am a designer, conservator, and transdisciplinary scholar-artist whose research mobilizes Indigenous epistemologies as critical frameworks for reconfiguring technoscientific futures. As a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab and a research assistant in the Space Enabled group, my work interrogates the epistemic assumptions embedded in space exploration, synthetic biology, and extended intelligence. Drawing from immersive fieldwork with communities across the globe, I examine how ritual technologies, oral cosmologies, and multispecies relations generate alternative modalities of knowledge, ethics, and design.

My Phd dissertation, Designing for the ChutluCosmos: Toward a Speculative Cosmopolitics of Indigenous Epistemologies in Space, articulates a decolonial and pluriversal framework for space ethics foregrounding indigenous epistemologies, relationality, cohabitation, and non-anthropocentric design logics. By treating cosmologies as living ontologies rather than symbolic artifacts, I seek to reorient dominant trajectories of scientific advancement toward forms of speculative praxis grounded in reciprocity, aesthetic refusal, and epistemic justice.

Prior to MIT, I completed a Master in Design Studies in Critical Conservation at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design as a Fulbright Fellow, where I explored sacred groves and Indigenous conservation paradigms through the lens of non-dualism design praxis. I center methodologies that emerge from situated knowledges, relational ontologies, and cosmopolitical accountability

I approach pedagogy as an act of epistemic disobedience and scholarship as a form of worlding. My work intervenes in extractive paradigms of research and design, proposing instead a framework of critical accompaniment, one that privileges first-voice narratives, ceremonial technologies, and more-than-human accountability as essential to the work of reimagining planetary futures.