She creates visual narratives inspired by the experience of growing up caught between a collapsing
conservative steel
town and the rural escapism of her grandparent's
farm in the coal mountains of central PA..
We are completely integrated in one of the most
conservative towns in the U.S., we have created affordable housing arrangements, turned several organic
farms around, built permaculture gardens in people's yards, talked to Tea Party members about overturning the Citizen's United Decision, and paid for it all with a sliding scale of tuition fee and exchanges through our Timebank and the Gift Economy.