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 structure 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.

  • Acadia Healthcare -

    As Director of Community Relations & Grant Management, I lead regional healthcare coalitions and oversee $1.5M in federal grants to expand access to care for those with opioid addiction.

    I conceived and chair the multi-county Opioid Steering Committee, aligning 15+ organizations to analyze real-time data and identify opportunities to minimize deaths. As a board member of the Inland Empire Opioid Crisis Coalition, we identify specific weaknesses, such as lack of transportation, to obtain creative answers.

    Working with the Desert AIDS Project Harm Reduction Team, my outreach in the desert washes keeps me closely connected to the needs of those we serve. Through this work, I created and chair the Homeless Workgroup Solutions Task Force. This coalition gathers the Palm Springs Police Department, appropriate City Staff and numerous local agencies to improve care and communication.

    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.

    Intrinsic Consulting Inc

    I founded and ran this international medical marketing consulting practice for seven years, evaluating LASIK practices nationally and in Australia. After 9/11, I chose to step back and become primary caregiver while my children were young.

    Screen Actors Guild– SAG / 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 celebrated, welcomed and represented.

    Episcopal Church USA

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

    Thornfield Conference on Sexuality

    In the early 1990s, I served as assistant to directors Allison Deming and Brian McNaught for this week-long Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) program — pioneering work on sexuality and spirituality before these conversations entered the mainstream. Working alongside my first trans colleague fundamentally changed how I understood the arc of human sexuality.

    Faith Communities

    As a Music Director across many faith traditions over 25 years, I've learned how belief systems shape diverse approaches to life — and how music can bridge them.

    • BA, Communication & Music Performance, DePauw University

    • Certified Spiritual Life Coach, Life Purpose Institute

    • The Hoffman Institute Graduate