Fostering opportunities for inclusive community conversations and collective learning is at the heart of my passion and purpose. These offerings pose and respond to the following questions: Why and how should we care about each other’s stories? How can we use stories emergent from extreme and extraordinary conditions to surface and sort through concerns that are both deeply personal and critically social? How can we move from authentic conversation to meaningful action? 

The events I organize range across audiences, platforms, issues, and geographies to meet people where they are and offer engaged, empathic, and nuanced approaches to entrenched social divides and issues. They consistently center people with lived experience of the impacts and issues under discussion, highlighting the expertise they possess and solutions they advance. They are intended to inform, inspire, and improve movement strategies for social justice.

I’ve facilitated forums on health equity, mass incarceration and criminal legal reform, voter engagement, censorship, guaranteed income, poverty, homelessness, and equitable access to education and the arts. I routinely lead workshops in libraries and community centers and conduct free online and in-person events for many different audiences. 

It is increasingly vital to expand our notion of what is possible and infuse the present with positive visions of a future rooted in care and belonging, where everyone has the resources and opportunities they need to flourish. These convenings offer space for communal reflection on how we can live consciously and in alignment with our values to co-create a more just and equitable world.