About
I’m a writer and community development strategist exploring what helps people—and the places they call home—thrive.
For more than a decade, I’ve worked across nonprofits, economic development, historic downtowns, churches, refugee support, and communities navigating poverty, addiction, displacement, and institutional neglect. A life lived throughout the United States and abroad has shaped not only the places I’ve called home, but how I think about place itself: how communities are formed, what holds them together, and what makes people want to invest in them.
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.
That perspective informs both my writing and my work.
Through essays and longer-form projects, I explore belonging, mobility, identity, proximity, and civic life in contemporary America. Through consulting and community-based projects, I help turn ideas into practice—strengthening organizations, securing resources, and building things that bring people closer to each other and the places they live.
I hold a Master’s degree in Policy. Almost everything else, I learned by living it.