
Our Work
This portfolio highlights our work as a listening artists committed to creating participatory cultural experiences across diverse settings, including nature preserves, office spaces, libraries, passenger aircraft, and manufacturing plants. It includes documentation of community-based programs, listening-centered workshops, and collaborative projects in Charlotte and internationally.
Across these forms, our work explores listening as both an artistic medium and a social practice—attending to self, others, nature, and the larger whole. Rooted in the Indian Indigenous Gond heritage and traditions of oral storytelling, our practice reimagines listening as a collective act rather than a performance or lesson. We believe connection emerges when attention is shared, everyday voices are centered, and space is made for presence, reflection, and belonging.
In a forest of noise, it’s never been more important to harness the transformative power of generative listening.
When we listen in a generative way, we feel the electricity—something new is created in the space between us. Through Listening Labs, I create spaces across diverse settings that foster this kind of listening, generating unforeseen possibilities.
Here are some of our projects

Finding Your Song – One Voice Chorus Charlotte (Anthology, in progress)
A community-centered anthology documenting local queer histories in Charlotte. Freedom Tunnel Press.
2027.

Becoming Labs – Becoming, together
Becoming Labs is a cohort-based life-design program supporting college students in navigating identity, purpose, health, transition, and belonging. We are co-developing the program with student advisor Reon Ogawa, a QuestBridge Scholar at Davidson College.
2026

Breakthrough Conversations
A facilitated program supporting individuals navigating conflict in the workplace, developed in collaboration with Professor Jeffrey Yip, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
2026

The Understory: Roots of a New India (Anthology, in progress)
An international anthology creating space for artists, artivists, and organizers working at the intersections of bridge-building and grassroots social impact in India and the U.S. Freedom Tunnel Press.
2026 | link

Finding Your S.O.N.G. in Tea
A participatory listening and storytelling experience in collaboration with archivist and poet Olivia Dorsey Peacock, UNC Charlotte professor Debarati Dutta, and artist Heather Marcelle Crickenberger, hosted at Pauline’s Tea Bar & Apothecary, Charlotte.
2026 | link

Finding Your S.O.N.G. in Nature.
A guided listening and reflection experience co-created with author and journalist Jen McGivney, held at Evergreen Nature Preserve, Charlotte.

Listening in Service of Access to Arts & STEM
Ongoing board service with Arts+, One Voice Chorus, and Queen City Robotics Alliance, centering community listening to expand access, equity, and participation in arts education, queer cultural expression, and STEM learning across Charlotte.
2025 – 2026

Creating Spaces for Listening to Plant Workers in Corporate America
Workshop presented at the International Listening Association Conference, Washington, DC.
2025 | link

Speaking Into Being: The Collective Power of Queer Intersectional Storytelling
Public talk and facilitated dialogue at the Union County Pride Conference.
2025 | link

Listening to the Local Arts and Science Non-profit Ecosystem
A year-long Cultural Leadership Training program facilitated by the Arts & Science Council (ASC), focused on community-responsive leadership, public arts ecosystems, and cross-sector collaboration in Charlotte.
2024/25 | link

It’s Soulful and It’s Survival: A Conversation with Four Drag Artivists in the U.S. South.
Public dialogues hosted at Goodyear Arts with local artivists Oso Chanel, Lolita Chanel, Nova Stella and Onya Nerves, Charlotte.
2024 | link

It’s Soulful and It’s Survival: A Conversation with Four Drag Artivists in the U.S. South. (Book)
An oral history and documentation of queer life and resistance in the U.S. South. Freedom Tunnel Press.
2024 | link

