Community Events

When I was 18, I joined WOZQ 91.9 FM, Smith College’s Radio Station. Two years later I became the station’s general manager because I wanted to bring people together in a way in which they could both express themselves and share a sense of creative, collective energy. Later drawn from the east coast to the west coast by DIY events that seemed to harness that same creativity for collective expression and empowerment, I moved to Berlin to learn the true art of DIY event management. In a city that barley sleeps, I fully immersed myself in what I now know to be the act of community organizing.

One of my favorite projects, from that time in Berlin’s history and that I had the pleasure of being apart of was The Wolf & Peter. A DIY supper club, The Wolf & Peter, was building community in Berlin’s emerging literary scene and cooking up delicious farm-to-table foods sourced from the urban farms within a wild city’s limits.

From my time managing community events, I am most thankful to have had the opportunity to work with a number of very smart and wonderfully creative people. None of it would have been possible without support from those I met through Terrorbird Media, the Dead Leaf Community, Mint Booking, and SAND Journal.