Livelihood: I am a nonviolence trainer, nonprofit fundraiser, and social sector consultant. My practice of consulting with boards and nonprofit leaders is informed by a graduate degree in Nonprofit Leadership & Management and over 20 years of lived experience within organizations with 2-200 staff and budgets ranging from $100K to $250M. I’ve held every functional role and can strategically guide teams in aligning planning, operations, and resource development.

Community Involvement: My community is both deep and wide; my organizing home is Nonviolent Austin, and I’m an on-air programmer for KOOP Community Radio, where I host monthly radio shows Nonviolent Austin Radio Hour and Racism on the Levels. I also serve on the national board of Resource Media and previously served on the boards of Real Queens Fix Each Other’s Crowns and the Playing for Change Foundation.

Geography/Roots: A fifth-generation Texan born on Karankawa land (South Texas), I’ve lived in San Diego, New York, DC, and Boston before moving to Austin in 2021 with my family. The home I care for sits within the ancestral and enduring territories of the Jumanos, Coahuiltecan, Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ (Comanche), Sana, Ndé Kónitsąąíí Gokíyaa (Lipan Apache), and Tonkawa People. These lands and waters have sustained life, ceremony, and kinship since time immemorial.

I choose to plant native species, feeding both the soil and the original ways the land remembers. I honor local Indigenous-led organizations like the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project, Red Salmon Arts, and the Native American Cultural Center, and am weaving threads of accountability back into the web of the place where I live.

Sources of JOY: live music, yoga, traveling, the ocean, cooking, gardening, connecting with animals, biking, meditation, and playing trivia with my family.