Author | Activist | Humanist

What do you do for a living is a question that tends to be asked when someone wants to know how it is that one makes money. 

I despise that question. 

It relies on the idea that one occupation, one box to be checked, is big enough to contain the fullness of our creative capacities. And I have never been comfortable in cages of any kind. My life and work has been an exercise in living out the answer to the query: What is it that I love? 

I LOVE community and all that it takes to build one. 

I LOVE when people who exist on the edges of the margins within the communities that I am a part of are centered and cared for. 

I LOVE to tell the stories that emerge from the lives of people who tend to be talked about (in media, in research, in the public square) but rarely listened to. 

I LOVE to build strategies that help to strengthen institutions’ capacity to be human centered, equitable and just. 

I LOVE to collectively build—meaningful relationships, impactful creative interventions, and institutions. 

This love has taken various shapes over the course of my career which spans more than two decades: writer, educator, author, cultural worker, strategist, community organizer, producer, editor, and institution builder. This love has been at the heart of everything that I do. And I only do what I love.