I am co-founder of the Jersey City chapter of the Feminist Bird Club - a group dedicated to promoting inclusivity in birding while fundraising and providing a safe opportunity for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, BIPOC and women to connect with the natural world.

Read about our launch in 2021 on the front page of the North Jersey Record here. Follow our Instagram here and sign up for emails about our upcoming birding events here.

In complement to my science-heavy career, I use my film producer skills to realise and document performance artists’ work. I work closely with these artists to understand their vision and plan how we can turn it into a reality. There’s a great responsibility to recording someone’s personal journey and presenting that as the physical record of the event, which I’m honored to do.

Above, still from Tzu Huan-Lin’s 林子桓 video exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum: Knotted Water Sizzled Tongue 《形聲》(2021). Making of interview here.

Chess in the Round (2021) a collaborative game of chess encouraging female-identifying and gender non-conforming people to learn and play this ancient game in one of New York’s most famous chess venues: Washington Park. Created by Nooshin Rostami.

Fault Lines (2018) a performance by Jemila MacEwan and Nooshin Rostami involving 52 oversized playing cards cut out from sheetrock that embodies points of tension and vulnerability of structure between two entities.

A selection of phone snaps from my journeys, documenting the absurd and whimsical.

Tinkerings, drawings and stitchings when my hands are free and my mind isn’t busy.