About Me
For more than three decades, I’ve worked in and around organizations focused on culture, community and social change — leading organizations, building revenue, advising executives and boards, developing programs and systems, writing, training and facilitating.
The work has ranged from arts and arts education, food justice and youth development to feminist and LGBTQ+ movements, HIV/AIDS services, refugee health, public art, community technology, and domestic and gender-based violence. Across those different settings, I have been drawn to work that expands voice, access, resources, safety and opportunity.
Some of what has shaped me most sits outside a conventional résumé. I’ve written about food and culture, advocated for special-education services, served on boards and grant panels, supported grassroots organizations and artists, and spent years thinking about voice and silence, neurodivergence, trauma, culture and power.
My approach is realistic, compassionate, specific, data-driven and transparent. I ask questions, pay attention to context, and say plainly what I know and what I don’t. I want the people I work with to feel clearer, stronger and better connected to the resources and relationships they need.
How I Lead and Work
Liberatory and participatory: I believe in the wisdom, creativity and leadership of the many, not the few.
Anti-racist, feminist and queer: I pay attention to power while valuing the knowledge, imagination and possibility that come from a wider range of voices and experiences.
Practical and transparent: Values should show up in budgets, staffing, governance, priorities and how people are treated.
Restorative: I believe in accountability, repair, learning and the possibility of moving forward.
Joyful and creative: Social change is also about what we are trying to create: connection, expression, community, pleasure and joy.
Outside work, I cook, write, follow politics and art, explore history through food, mix dance music for friends, and spend time with my son and the people I love.
