Hello,
a bit about me:
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Provider of marketing, strategic, executive, and crisis communications; community-based and structural organizing; engagement; and operational and consultative services, with specializations in nonprofits and grassroots projects
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Board leader with experience in founding, growing, funding, and advancing organizations
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Community advocate, deeply invested in structural and social equity for my communities and neighborhood
Co-founder, REACH: Responding with Empathy, Access, and Community Healing (2021-2023) | Founding member, CareforCLE campaign | Board Chair and Incorporator, The Buckeye Flame (2020-2022) | Board Chair, Preterm (2017-2020) (Board Member, 2014-2020) | Board Member, Plexus LGBTQ + Allied Chamber of Commerce (2018-2020) (Chamber Member, 2015-2022) | Cofounder, Cleveland Bi+ Network | re:power (Wellstone) graduate, campaign management | Cohort XIV member, Neighborhood Leadership Development Program (NLDP) | Graduate, University of Maryland
Recent Media
Interview: "Cleveland advocates make the case for non-police response to mental health crisis calls," WKSU, August 2022
Op ed: "Care response is the right tool for the job," Cleveland . com, 2023
Column: "Ohio Bi+ people aren’t getting the mental health care they need and deserve," The Buckeye Flame, 2023