About Me

Relationships matter a lot to me. The opportunity to be outside of any one organizational space allows me to connect dots across the work–between organizations, leaders, organizers, academics, and funders. The concept of bridging social capital helps order my thinking about how and where to forge new connections.

How I work is as important to me as what I’m working on. I especially enjoy partnering with people who are generous in conversation, who take the task at hand more seriously than they take themselves, who hold room for warm nuance, who are clear about what they’re interested in learning–and, centrally, who are clear about what winning means and what it will actually take. 

My focus is on campaigns, organizations, and projects that are serious about their power analysis, and that are accountable to the rigors of building a multiracial, working class movement. I take seriously my role in creating systems of solidarity that do not center whiteness.

I love thinking about all the phases of a project or campaign: from research, to campaigning in the field, to implementing the win alongside those responsible for program design, to accountability for matching a project/policy outcome to intended goal and core constituency–and then to learning from our work in a way that informs what we do next.

My first boss hung a sign in the office that read, “it’s easy to be busy; it’s tough to be strategic.” When I read that sign at 19 years old, I thought it was silly–now I think about it every day, as a guiding principle in my work. I try to help leaders and organizations see around the next bend in the road, and be nimble enough to adapt to whatever is ahead.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio (midwest vs. everybody!), and I currently live in Portland, Maine. If you call and I don’t pick up, I’m probably petting a cat or baking a pie.