I've merged art, activism, and academics since childhood.

My process evolved over a decade plus of college and grad school 

in anthropology and environmental studies,  a  five-year stretch in

 community-supported radio (hosting & producing) and video work,

and into my dog training era, with Seattle Humane since 2018.

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My path towards launching Ecodog Roll Call has been starlit ever

since I encountered one of Washington's Karelien Bear Dogs while apprenticing at a pet dog training facility. I came across the idea of  employing pups in conservation roles again in 2019 while attending

a canine science symposium: In a talk about the power of a pooch's nose, we heard from professor Alexandra Horowitz about the heroic

orca-scat sniffer dogs of the Salish Sea. Though I'd made my way into working with dogs in search of an oxytocin boost after having long focused on environmental crises, learning about these working dogs brought me back to the cause. The final stepping stone in this path was finding camaraderie at the Sequential Artists Workshop,

or SAW,* a school and online network for comics creators,  in 2021.

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From left: Talula, Tuk Tuk, Chaska, & Bhalu, my dogs, along

with young Theodorable, in the white coat, above and below.

R.I.P. Bhalu, Tuk Tuk, & Chaska: Forever in my heart. ♡​​

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*Thanks to SAW's mentors, my comics, A Quick Guide to Ecodogs  

and Being Green, Seeing Grey, appear in two SAW anthologies, 

In the News, Again  (2023) and Troubled Histories  (2024), respectively

(both were published as paperbacks originally and are now ebooks). Refer to the photo of me as a ​kid in pigtails below for a sense of my gratitude to all my teachers there, like Jess Ruliffson & Tom Hart. 🙏🏼

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