Inhabit

My commitment to collective space is rooted in the belief that infrastructure can be an act of care and of potential for agency. To build space is to shape conditions for life—to nurture togerness, memory, and trust. It is also a political act, especially when done in ways that resist privatization and instead reaffirm the commons.

Over the past decade, I’ve contributed to the emergence, sustainability, and transformation of community and cultural buildings across Tiohtià:ke/Montreal—spaces that hold not only people, but possibilities. From 2016 onward, I’ve served several major initiatives: as Director of Philanthropy at MR-63, I contributed to support fundraising for a new landmark urban cultural project, while at La Petite Maison sur Laprairie, I helped secure foundational funding and anchor the project within Pointe-St-Charles broader community ecosystem rooted in solidarity and accessibility.

Currently, I serve as President of ESPACE LGBTQ+, where I support the organization’s transition into a major community complex offering affordable space to 2SLGBTQIA+ community and cultural groups. With a strong focus on urbanistic and architecturally meaningful design, I work to ensure that these infrastructures remain grounded in care, dignity, and access—not as service delivery models, but as living, relational systems.

Lately, I lead with a few co-conspirators FANTOM SPACE PROJECT, a new cultural venue grounded in sound, movement, and emergent arts in Montreal. Designed as a space for experimentation, joy, and collective authorship, FANTOM responds to the urgent need for safer, inclusive, and artist-led cultural infrastructure.

Across all of these projects, I understand inhabiting as a decolonial practice—one that challenges who is allowed to belong, who is heard, and who benefits. In this work, I remain critically attuned not only to the voices that are present, but also to those that are missing: displaced communities, the land itself, more-than-human beings. My aim is to help build a culture of collective ownership—one that extends beyond the few who hold title, toward the many who live, shape, and steward these spaces together.