About
I’m a writer, strategist, and nonprofit leader exploring belonging, mobility, identity, and civic life in contemporary America.
Over the course of my career, I’ve worked in nonprofits, economic development organizations, historic downtowns, churches, refugee support initiatives, and communities navigating poverty, addiction, displacement, and institutional neglect. Living throughout the United States and abroad as a military spouse has shaped not only the places I’ve called home, but my understanding of place itself—how communities are formed, what helps them endure, and the systems that determine whether people are able to belong and build meaningful lives there.
Along the way, I’ve seen how fragile institutions quietly hold communities together, how local businesses become anchors of civic life, and how economic instability reshapes not only opportunity, but trust, connection, and a community’s sense of possibility. Belonging is not distributed equally. Strong communities matter—the health of a country is ultimately reflected in the health of its towns, neighborhoods, and institutions.
That belief informs both my consulting work and my writing.
Today, I help nonprofits, small businesses, and place-based organizations secure funding, manage complex initiatives, build sustainable systems, and strengthen the communities they serve. Through my newsletter, The Exchange, I write about local economies, political and cultural division, mobility, identity, and the questions of place and belonging that continue to shape contemporary American life.
I hold a Master’s degree in Policy. Most everything else, I learned by living it.
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