I am an artist and art educator in NJ. My work has looked at gender, identity, queerness, and its relationship to environment (interchangably) for the last decade. I have been teaching art for 16 years at the high school level and working to improve the dialogue around queerness and otherness at that level. In 2010 I organized a consortium of organizations, institutions, and individuals in my region that have or can contribute resources to improve the health, well being, and joy of LGBTQI youth.