a practice in women’s sport, recovery, design, and the rituals of care.
WORKING WITH:
Women's Professional Sports
Collegiate Athletics
Sports Brands
Athlete-founded Companies
Leagues & Governing Bodies
Executive Leadership Teams
I have never been interested in performance for its own sake.
I want to know what happens after the game or difficult conversation.
I wonder what transpires during off-season and after the win or loss that quietly changes us.
My work always returns to that space.
As a Black queer woman, an athlete, writer, and organizational strategist, I've spent my career studying the conditions that help people recover inside organizations, through sport, and in the ordinary rooms where life is actually lived.
Everything I create grows from that inquiry. It’s the through line in the essays where I think out loud. The Studio applies those ideas inside women’s sports organizations. PARLO explores them through sport, design, and culture.
Different expressions. The same question:
How do we create the conditions that help people return to themselves and to one another after experiences that change them?
MY PRACTICE
LIFE after performance // The practice of RETURNING // RECOVERY as culture, not optimization // CONFLICT as information // SPORT as a living laboratory // CARE as cultural inheritance // BEAUTY as infrastructure // IDENTITY after achievement // PRESENCE as authority // ENVIRONMENTS as safe spaces to become.
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FEATURED ESSAY || THE ROOMS THAT RAISED US
FEATURED WORK
Part regional golf course archive, part design studio, PARLO investigates Black and LGBTQ+ history of golf and studies how environments support recovery. Where she’s a pro or picking up golf clubs for the first time, the After-Round Standard™ is for the woman who returns home carrying all that the scorecard could never hold.
ABOUT
THE STUDIO
18+ years leading organizational strategy, mediation, leadership development, and conflict resolution across education, technology, philanthropy, and sport.