The Ouroboros Collaborative is faith in rebirth, in the growth, in the shedding, in the cycle. A devotion to storytelling, healing, and expression.

This platform evolved out of an organic need for a container of related projects and visions. This is not a portfolio - in fact, all of these projects are works-in-progress… this is a dreamscape, this is a spell.

This is a coalescing of a mercurial life; the travels and the travails, the academia and the apprenticeship, the rejection and the rejoicing.

I am neither old nor young. I am neither ignorant nor experienced. I am elegantly existing and everyday attempting an acute sense of balance. Bowing to the various threads and tools that have woven their way into my field, landing me here, in this moment, dedicated to land, movement, and plant medicine.

Garden of remembering & forgetting, Slobodan Dan Paich, May 2016

Listed here are my alma maters as well as some special accomplishments, trainings, and mentors:

  • M.C.P., Environmental Planning & Urban Design - UC Berkeley (2018-2020)

  • J.D., Environmental Law, Cannabis Law & Drug Policy, Cooperative Law - UC Law of San Francisco, FKA UC Hastings (2013-2016)

  • B.A., Theatre & Political Science - Boston College (2006-2010)

  • Community Land Use Planner, City of San Diego (2022 - Present)

  • Legal & Policy Apprentice, Multi-Disciplinary Association of Psychedelic Science (2023 - Present)

  • Dance and Theater Arts since 2003

    • Many wonderful schools, teachers, mentors, collaborators, and groups… including Carol Cadby, Luke Jorgensen, Tamalpa Institute, ODC, Slobodan Dan Paich and ArtShip, Margery Fairchild, Jo Kreiter, Elizabeth Boubion, Kristen Rulifson, Aikido SF, Contact Improvisation of San Diego… most recently completed an Art of Ritual Theater course with Isis Indriya and Eve Bradford

  • Herbalist studies since 2012 (Ancestral Arts FKA Ancestral Apothecary, Scarlet Sage, Self-Heal School of Herbal Studies & Healing, and many individual teachers along the way — mostly self-taught)

  • Sacred plant medicine path (North & South American traditions)

  • 200-hr Yoga Teacher trained at Trilogy San Diego with Gabrielle Blachley (2022-2023, registration in process)

  • Dedicated mindfulness meditation practice since 2006, originally Jon Kabat-Zinn lineage

  • Cultural anthropology research on the Zapotec temazcal ceremony, in residence at pocoapoco, Oaxaca (2022)

  • Co-Instructor & Reader for American Environmental History, UC Berkeley (2019 - Present)

  • Capstone thesis on land use planning & tribal law for Yurok Tribe, Klamath River (2019-2020)