Direct Action
As part of my Social Design Master’s thesis, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork aboard Captain Paul Watson’s ship, the John Paul DeJoria from May-June 2025. As a crew member, this research investigates the role of direct action environmentalism in ocean conservation, with particular emphasis on interventions targeting commercial whaling.
From a social design perspective, this work examines how activist communities construct alternative frameworks for environmental governance through embodied practice, collective decision-making, and tactical design. The ship functions as a mobile platform where ecological ethics, political resistance, where systems of care are actively prototyped and negotiated.
This experience/research contributes to critical discussions in design studies by analyzing how non-state actors create and sustain interventions outside conventional policy structures. It foregrounds the potential of socially engaged design to support emergent forms of environmental stewardship and systemic change in the context of ocean conservation.
Petition To Ban Plastic Bags in the City of Miami Beach
I moved to the City of Miami Beach in 2020 during the Covid 19th pandemic.
Overwhelmed by the strong presence of plastic pollution, and after engaging on multiple beach cleanups, I decided to create this petition.
Ocean is Earth’s largest ecosystem
Its the largest ‘carbon sink in the planet and it needs our protection.
It generates 50 percent of the oxygen we humans need and absorbs 25 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions , while capturing a considerable amount of the excess heat generated by these emissions.
Practice what you preach