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. Fostering opportunities for meaningful and inclusive community conversations and collective learning is a cornerstone of my contribution to this imperative.

The events I organize range across audiences, platforms, issues, and geographies to meet people where they are and offer engaged, empathic, and authentic approaches to entrenched social divides and issues. I’ve organized and 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 events on Zoom for many different audiences. These are interactive, interdisciplinary, and community-centered.

I organize these convenings to 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. They consistently platform people with lived experience of the impacts and issues under discussion, highlighting the expertise they possess and solutions they advance. 

All my work poses and responds to the following critical question: Why and how should we care about each other’s stories? Through classes, workshops, publications, and events, I showcase the range and particularities of individual experiences alongside the common denominators that weave experiences and effects together and compel us toward greater understanding and purposeful action. 

My work is laser focused on entrenched social issues and marginalized communities because I believe that by creating, animating, disseminating, and documenting stories emergent from extreme and extraordinary conditions, we are better able to see that how we account for and respond to harm is both a deeply personal and critically social issue. As this expansive vision illuminates one corner after another and gives shape to new feelings and forms, it cannot help but do the same in others, showing what we can nurture and grow together—new stories, new conditions, new relationships—grounded in human dignity, mutuality, and integrity.