I've always loved working with my hands, after taking a ceramics class, I realized clay was what I was missing. A year and a half later I was pursuing an M.F.A. at the Rochester Institute of Technology. That's how I came to clay, but I've always been drawn to craft, to the handcrafted, and to the pace of making. The act of making is vital and energizing for me, it drowns out unnecessary noise and brings together communities of makers that can find commonality in the value of being a maker.