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    About Me

    For more than three decades, I have worked in and alongside mission-driven organizations as an executive director, senior development leader, strategist, fundraiser, consultant, and advisor.

    My work has been local, regional, national, and international, spanning nonprofit leadership, philanthropy and fundraising, organizational strategy, arts and culture, food security and food justice, youth and education, domestic and gender-based violence, and movements for racial, gender, and LGBTQ+ justice.

    Across that work, I have:

    • Led and strengthened arts, arts education, and cultural organizations and projects.
    • Built fundraising and organizational capacity for food security, food justice, youth development, and community-based organizations.
    • Worked in feminist, LGBTQ+, civil rights, racial justice, and HIV/AIDS organizations and movements.
    • Supported public art and cultural projects connecting creativity, place, environmental justice, and community identity.
    • Led fundraising, communications, and organizational strategy in support of survivors and efforts to end domestic and gender-based violence.

    Since 2009, I have also maintained a consulting practice focused on organizational planning, development, executive coaching, fundraising, and systems. I work with leaders and organizations navigating growth, change, or complex challenges, offering practical support around strategy, revenue, organizational structure, and social impact.

    That work has included founders, leaders, and projects in documentary film, youth development, refugee health, public art, local theater, social equity, healthy food systems, and feminist, queer, and racial justice initiatives.

    Beyond my formal roles, I have written about food and culture, advocated for special education services, spoken and trained in public and professional settings, served on boards, and contributed to pro bono and volunteer projects.

    I have also spent significant time studying questions of voice and silence, neurodivergence, and the ways developmental and acute trauma can shape people, organizations, and communities.

    When not working, you'll often find me mixing dance music for friends, exploring culinary traditions as a way of learning about culture and history, or spending time with my son and community.

  • How I Lead and Work

    1

    ANTI-RACIST

    I am committed to anti-racist leadership and to challenging the systems, practices, and assumptions that reproduce racial inequity. That means examining how power and resources are distributed, whose voices shape decisions, who has access and opportunity, and where organizational habits continue to privilege some people over others. For me, anti-racist leadership requires honesty about inequity, willingness to confront it, and sustained attention to how everyday decisions can either reinforce or interrupt it.

    2

    QUEER & LGBTQ+ JUSTICE

    My work is inseparable from my commitment to the freedom, safety, belonging, and leadership of LGBTQ+ people. My own queerness informs how I lead, collaborate, and build community, and I work to support organizations where LGBTQ+ people—across identities and experiences—can contribute, create, lead, and thrive.

    3

    INTERSECTIONALLY FEMINIST

    I believe deeply in women’s leadership, voice, freedom, joy, and full participation in organizations and communities. I work to recognize and challenge misogyny, patriarchy, and the ways gender intersects with race, class, sexuality, disability, and other forms of power and exclusion. Feminist and womanist thinking has shaped how I understand leadership, justice, and social change throughout my career.

    4

    TRANSPARENT

    I value clear, direct, and honest communication, especially when decisions are difficult or information is incomplete. I try to make expectations, constraints, and decision-making processes visible, invite questions and disagreement, and share what I know without pretending to have answers I do not. Transparency builds trust—and makes better collaboration possible.

    5

    BUILDING JOY

    I believe joy matters. Organizations and movements doing difficult work need room for creativity, humor, celebration, connection, and pleasure—not only urgency and sacrifice. I try to build cultures where people can take the work seriously without losing the relationships, imagination, and humanity that make the work worth doing.

    6

    RESTORATIVE

    I believe strong organizations need the capacity to repair, learn, and move forward. Conflict, mistakes, and periods of strain are inevitable; what matters is how we respond to them. I try to approach problems with curiosity, accountability, and a focus on restoring trust, strengthening relationships, and leaving systems and teams healthier than I found them.

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