As a kid I knew I didn’t want anyone else to define me. I was a Black and mixed race city girl, moved to rural Vermont from New York City by intrepid, entrepreneurial parents at the age of nine. For years I did not feel at home. I wanted the world around me to be better. A place where ‘different’ kids didn't feel so weird and left out. A place where everyone felt safe, no matter the color of their skin or gender. A place where we can all be our whole selves. Be who we be. A place where we are all free.​

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I have explored questions about how to build this world for over 25 years. I have supported women’s cooperatives with feminist popular education in Ghana and Boston. Led strategic initiatives on gender justice and movement building for international organizations. Integrated liberatory practices into everyday social justice work. All the way, I have been part of cross-cultural community and friendships working for gender, racial and economic rights and justice. 

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My commitment to collective care and thriving has grown with deep curiosity, exploration and life experience. Unsustainable stress and traumatic events during my years living in Afghanistan and Cambodia, gave me clarity that cultivating wellbeing and more joyful, collective forms of leadership in myself and others would be core to my service to people and planet. My commitments to building loving power with, being in right relationship to my children, my ancestors and nature and (re)sourcing emerging leaders with hope, imagination and rigor guide me now. 

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Spirit rooted embodied learning and practice are at the heart of all my work, whether I am coaching individual leaders, facilitating group strategy and team building, or teaching emerging leaders to be curious and create new possibilities for a healthier, more just and joyful world. Politisized somatics, singing in community, parenting my two girls and spending time in nature are magic potions in my life.