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My background and experience

I've spent more than three decades helping organizations discover how to embrace change—not by imposing frameworks, but by helping them create new paths while honoring their unique history and purpose.

I don't use a framework developed in a business school. I bring diverse life experience—fluid creativity, humility, and genuine respect for everyone involved in building pluralism.

I came to this work honestly. As a person in long-term recovery, I embody the importance of healing through community.

Being part of the LGBTQ+ community, I grew up navigating societal and religious differences, discovering, at an early age, that bridge-building is a life necessity.

Having often been an outsider, I know instinctively when belonging is real and when it's performative.

  • Episcopal Church USA

    Through a national Peace & Justice office, I built pluralism infrastructure by authoring public policy action alerts, serving 2.5 million members across local structures with vastly different theological and political orientations. I managed a $500m socially responsible investment portfolio through the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, authoring shareholder resolutions that helped shape Fortune 500 company practices.

    Screen Actors Guild–AFTRA

    As assistant director of membership, I led a team inducting new members into one of America's largest labor unions (160,000+ performers). The challenge wasn't just administrative—it was creating an onboarding experience where a day player and an Oscar winner each felt welcomed and represented.

    Inland Empire Opioid Crisis Coalition

    As a current board member, I coordinate 40+ member organizations and 150+ stakeholders working to reduce opioid-related deaths and expand treatment access in underserved communities. I helped establish an FQHC opioid treatment program serving 5,000+ residents.

    Desert AIDS Project

    As a Harm Reduction team member, I conduct homeless outreach in desert washes, building trust and providing direct services to unsheltered populations excluded from traditional care. This ground-level work keeps me connected to how systems can both harm and heal.

    Federal Grant Management

    I currently manage a $1.5m federal grant expanding addiction treatment access. This work requires coordinating medical providers, county officials, community organizations, and people in recovery toward shared outcomes.

    Pride Institute

    As director of community relations, I led national engagement strategy for the country's premier LGBTQ+ addiction treatment facility. That work taught me what it takes to create spaces where people can be fully themselves and get well.

    Intersections with belief

    I have worked with people of many different faith traditions and understand how belief systems shape diverse approaches to life. As a specific example, I have created treatment environments where 12-step and Buddhist recovery as well as secular and agnostic pathways are simultaneously embraced (rather than merely tolerated).

    • BA, Communication & Music Performance, DePauw University

    • Certified Spiritual Life Coach, Life Purpose Institute

    • The Hoffman Institute Graduate