About
I’m a writer, strategist, and nonprofit leader exploring belonging, mobility, identity, and civic life in contemporary America.
Across the span 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 not only lent itself to a breadth of professional experiences, but it has shaped my understanding of place, identity, and the systems that determine whether people are able to belong and stay rooted.
I’ve seen how fragile institutions quietly hold communities together, how local businesses become anchors, and how economic instability reshapes not only opportunity, but trust, connection, and civic life itself. That experience informs both my consulting work and my writing.
Today, I help nonprofits, small businesses, and place-based organizations build sustainable systems, secure funding, and strengthen the communities they serve, while writing essays and commentary on local economies, political and cultural division, mobility, and American life through my newsletter, The Exchange.
I have a Master’s Degree in Policy. Most everything else, I learned by living it.
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