I create experiences, educational programs, and consulting services at the intersection of ecology, music, wellness, and community.
I’m an ecological designer, educator, musician, facilitator, herbalist, mother, land steward, and ISTA-certified sound therapist. For more than fifteen years, my work has brought me into community orchards, university research projects, international migration work, nonprofit leadership, festival production, outdoor classrooms, and spaces devoted to reflection and restoration.
Across those settings, one question continues to guide me: What conditions help life thrive—and how can we create more of them together?
Through Earthtoned, I bring that question into practice with sound immersions, individual multimodal sessions, nature connection, ecological design, educational programs, and gatherings for organizations and communities.
You might arrive seeking rest, support through a transition, a deeper relationship with the living world, or a meaningful experience for the people you serve. My work is to listen closely, draw on the practices and experience that fit, and help create conditions in which something nourishing can take root.
My professional foundations began in social research and a concern for people whose experiences are too often overlooked.
At the University of Delaware, I studied sociology, Africana studies, and political science, graduating through the Honors Program in 2009. I worked with migration scholar Mark J. Miller on research for a new edition of The Age of Migration, contributing writing on migration into and out of Africa.
That work helped me develop an internship with the International Organization for Migration in Sierra Leone, where I lived and worked for seven months at age twenty. It was a formative experience in listening across cultures, examining inequality, and recognizing the distance that can exist between institutional intentions and people’s everyday realities.
I later reached the final interview stages for both the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships. After graduation, I worked on an interdisciplinary environmental justice project through the Delaware Environmental Institute, examining sea-level-rise concerns in an economically marginalized Wilmington community. I also participated in conventional corn-breeding research. These experiences strengthened my ability to ask questions, observe patterns, synthesize information, and consider whose needs are being heard—and whose are missing.
They also brought me to a personal realization: I knew how to study complex systems, but I wanted to learn how to care for daily life with my own hands.
After college, I moved to Philadelphia and began learning how to grow food, build things, practice crafts, and participate in the relationships that sustain a neighborhood.
I founded Philly Food Forests, a grassroots volunteer effort rooted in the possibilities of shared food-growing spaces. I later designed a position and served as Program Director of the Philadelphia Orchard Project, bringing together orchard design, education, community partnerships, and the ongoing care of productive urban landscapes.
My Philadelphia work also included involvement with Historic Fair Hill, Mycopolitan Mushroom Company, and advocacy supporting the creation of the Philadelphia Land Bank.
Together with Susquehanna Sustainable Enterprises, I developed and taught ecological design courses in Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Across the years, I have continued creating workshops and learning experiences for people with different backgrounds, resources, and levels of experience.
My training includes permaculture design, teacher training, advanced permaculture study, and green-roof professional certification.
Ecological design taught me to look at relationships before prescribing solutions. What is already working? What needs tending? What resources are available? What can this particular place—or person, or community—actually sustain?
Those questions remain central to everything I offer.
Music has grown alongside my ecological and community work throughout my life.
My experience includes songwriting, first solo, then with a 3-piece band called The Radicans, and then as Edenspore. Launched in 2016, Edenspore brought my music, ecological design, herbal practice, visual art, and teaching into a shared creative home.
Starting in 2019 with Edenspore, my Spirit of Place practice has explored the relationship between music and the environments in which it is created. Buildings, trees, water, weather, acoustics, and the people present all influence what emerges. This work continues through recordings, improvisational performances, and projects exploring the histories and living relationships held by places.
My husband and longest musical collaborator, Zach LoPresti, also joins me in select performances, recording projects, and Earthtoned experiences.
I also spent fourteen years participating in the community surrounding Beardfest in the New Jersey Pinelands with Zach and a very large community there, including as executive staff, education director, and vending coordinator. Helping shape a festival meant working across artists, educators, vendors, volunteers, audiences, and the land holding the gathering.
The Pinelands are deeply personal to me. I was born at their edges and later returned to live nearby. That relationship continues to inform my commitment to learning from ecosystems and approaching them with respect, protection, and reciprocity.
These years of music and organizing taught me how to hold both practical details and the atmosphere of a gathering: how people arrive, how they participate, and what helps them feel welcome.
My understanding of care also comes from lived experience.
My mother died when I was ten. At twenty-two, a serious cycling accident while I was on the University of Delaware Cycling Team left me with a significant hip injury. Years later, a severe sacroiliac injury while renovating my New Jersey home left me unable to walk for several weeks.
I have also lived through sexual violence, anxiety, depression, and a long history of disordered eating. These experiences have shaped my relationship with my body, my boundaries, and the slow, personal work of healing.
In February 2026, my daughter Juniper was stillborn late in pregnancy. Ten days later, we lost Reishi, my first dog and longtime companion.
Those most recent losses felt like a true initiation. In the midst of grief, I felt called to embrace more fully who I am, what I believe, and the work I feel here to offer—especially its spiritual dimensions. My sorrow belongs to my love for them. Alongside it came a clearer commitment to helping ease the way for others moving through their own healing journeys.
Sound, relationship with the living world, spiritual practice, and community have given me places to bring experiences that words alone could not hold.
I share this history because it informs how I listen. I know something about being capable and committed while also feeling overwhelmed, injured, grieving, or uncertain. I also know that another person’s experience will always be their own.
There is room here to arrive as you are. You do not have to tell your whole story, perform wellness, or know what comes next.
My ISTA sound-therapy certification sits alongside years of musical practice, ecological education, research, facilitation, and community leadership.
In a sound immersion, I work with voice, crystal and metal singing bowls, chimes, and other instruments to create an experience centered on listening, rest, and reflection.
In individual multimodal sessions, we have more time for conversation and exploration. Depending on your interests and needs, we may draw on sound, tapping, gentle movement, reflective practices, energy work, and questions about daily life and transition.
Through ecological design and nature connection, I help people observe the living systems around them, deepen their relationships with place, and translate their intentions into practical stewardship.
For organizations and gatherings, I am able to bring experience in program design, group facilitation, event coordination, and community partnerships. We can shape a restorative pause, an educational experience, a space for reflection, or an ongoing rhythm of care around your group’s needs.
Your preferences, boundaries, beliefs, and experience help shape our work. My spirituality informs my practice, and you are welcome with your own language for what matters to you.
Today, I’m based in Cortland County, where my family and I are tending our land we call Harmony Acres and developing a long-term vision for ecological education, music, creativity, and community gathering.
I offer experiences locally and online, collaborate with community organizations, and continue developing music, writing, and educational work. My artist partnership with Soundtopia supports part of my ongoing sound and recording practice.
Earthtoned gives these different parts of my life a shared home. They are connected by a belief that our wellbeing is bound up with our relationships—with our bodies, one another, our communities, and the living world.
My hope is that something you encounter here helps you feel more connected to your own life, more curious about what is possible, and more supported in taking your next step.
Whether you’re seeking restoration, navigating change, planning a gathering, or caring for a place and its people, I’d be glad to explore what we can create together.