About Me
Over the past few decades, I've been dedicated to driving positive change across the United States, from Austin, TX, to Washington, DC, as well as in the Kingdom of Hawai'i and my home state of California.
Since 1995, my work has spanned various sectors, connecting community, government, foundations, and business:
- Funding public art projects, both locally and globally, to promote creativity and essential visual messaging.
- Advocating for civil and human rights through marches, grassroots campaigns, and policy work.
- Raising funds to support individuals living with AIDS/HIV.
- Passionately championing healthy food and innovative food systems.
- Empowering city youth by fostering tech skills and mentorship connections.
- Supporting community arts space and organizations, nurturing creativity in music, theater, ceramics, and photography.
For the past decade, my consulting work has included organizational planning, development, executive coaching, and fundraising.
Supporting visionary leaders and diverse projects at the local, state, and national levels, offering guidance on strategy, fundraising, business, and social impact.
Partnerships have ranged from documentary film and youth programs to refugee health, public art, local theater, cannabis equity, healthy food systems, and feminist, queer, and racial justice initiatives.
Beyond professional roles, I've explored food writing, advocated for special education services, delivered public speeches, served on boards, and engaged in pro bono and volunteer projects.
Additionally, I've dedicated significant time to the study of systemic silence, resistant voice, neurodivergence, as well as both developmental and incident-related trauma.
When not working with clients, you'll find me mixing dance music for friends, exploring culinary traditions to learn about culture and history, or simply enjoying quality time with family and friends.
Practice Values
1ANTI-RACIST
I'm invested in the leadership, growth, representation, freedom, and belonging of people of color, leaders of color, and communities of color. I work towards anti-racist structures, practices, policies, and investments. This includes addressing my participation in systems of privilege and being a student of and catalyst for anti-racist / anti-white-supremacist social change.
2QTBLGIA+
My work is inseparable from my commitment to full liberation and inclusion of QTBLGIA+ people, concerns, talents, and histories. My own queerness is an asset and tool for encouraging inclusive and just teams and organizations and I work in support of intersectional QTBLGIA+ leadership, creativity, and representation.
3INTERSECTIONALLY FEMINIST
I am invested in women's leadership, voice, liberation, joy, inclusion, representation, and full access to projects, workplaces, and a world free of misogyny, stereotype, or any form of misogynist or patriarchal discrimination. I am deeply invested in a robust and evident intersectional feminist and pro-womanist worldview.
4TRANSPARENT
I work from a place of candor, openness, and transparency. We share what is needed, have essential and critical conversations, and find healthy and supportive ways to be bold and reality-based in our work. I value forthrightness and discretion in my client interactions and community.
5BUILDING JOY
My first love and my core responsibility are to the sheer power of pursuing joy, creativity, learning, culture, community, and justice. And that pursuit is rooted in creating more freedom, less trauma, less inequality. This drives my interest in choosing projects that create safety, voice, social fabric, power, fairness, restoration, and community wealth.
6RESTORATIVE
I value restoration, problem-solving, and making systems, teams, projects, and relationships healthy and whole. Differences are inevitable but a commitment to restoration encourages progress and growth towards more connection and ease.