As a founder of Playground of Empathy, I bring my collaborative design experience to enliven the greater good through spaces for emotional awareness. Playground of Empathy creates immersive experiences that offer a paradigm shift in social quality time. We use the power of immersive design to craft deeply moving, authentic, and entertaining experiences that contribute toward large scale societal change. 

These extraordinarily engaging group experiences combat our mass mental health epidemic at its source, by strengthening people's connection to their own and other’s emotions exponentially better than passive media like films or museums. 

Our current modular experience on Gender Identity and Expression, which has just toured at Harvard, Massachusetts General, and the national Education First conference, and is already being booked at the Boston Museum of Science and the APS Conference in 2020.

I like to work with interesting, confidently vulnerable- imperfect people, with great values, and cared-for challenges. If you’d like to glance at my CV, or for questions, simply send me an e-mail.

I believe in “healthy obsessions”. Mine revolves around the question, ‘how do we design for individual, group, and societal behavior towards pro-social and pro-environmental choice making.’

As the Netherland’s first behavioral designer, I’ve created concepts that tried to answer this question for companies like Disney, Google, Microsoft, AHold, The Diabetes fund and various European Governments and Universities. I’ve given workshops or lectures on human centered design subjects at The Darden School of Business, the UVA school of Engineering, UNC Chapel Hill, the UVR Robins Graduate School of Business and the Vrije University of Amsterdam.

I began my career as an opera singer at the Met, age 10, and later studied poetic psychology through art song, at San Francisco Conservatory, operatic and baroque music at The Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands and multi-medial design at the Royal Art Academy of Belgium. My focus in all professions has been on developing the role of embodied emotions to create emotional nuance and empathy. Designing spaces for emotional nuance, is one of my most ongoing values.

My professional focus is in strategically designing the potential of mankind.