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Hello,

a bit about me:

  • Provider of field organizing, engagement, strategic, operational, and consultative services, with specializations in nonprofits and grassroots projects

  • Board leader with experience in founding, growing, funding, and advancing organizations

  • Community advocate, deeply invested in structural and social equity for my communities and neighborhood

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I love to amplify impactful messages that are supported in coalition and sought after in community. If that's not your organization's biography right now, it can be. 

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Check out my most recent book: In Trouble, out on the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Proceeds benefit the National Network of Abortion Funds.

Nonprofits

Extensive experience as a nonprofit team member, consultant, board chair, and founding member of new and newly established nonprofits

Communications

Writer, editor, producer, and project manager of public-facing communications collateral, including marketing, public relations, and crisis work

Strategy

Get the asset and asset usage mapping, capacity inventory, policy timelines, and power mapping tools that support your strategic plan. 

Connectivity

More than a decade of experience in organizing, with deep northeast Ohio roots and a national network of grasstops and political elders and leaders

Co-founder, REACH: Responding with Empathy, Access, and Community Healing (2021-present) | Founding member, CareforCLE campaign | Democracy Collective member, Cleveland VOTES (2023-2024) | 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 | Cofounder, Bi+ Community Affinity Group, LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland | Cofounder, Cleveland Kings Action Pack | Member, Cuyahoga Democratic Women's Caucus | Member, Collective Arts Network (CAN) | re:power (Wellstone) graduate, campaign management | Cohort XIV member, Neighborhood Leadership Development Program (NLDP) | Graduate, University of Maryland

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Current Projects

While I have experience in many sectors and content areas, these are the focal points of my organizing and advocacy practices.

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Expansion of Crisis Services

Right now, northeast Ohio communities all rely primarily on police officers as first responders to all types of situations. The toolbox police officers and other providers have to serve a wide (and growing) range of community needs is very limited. Cuyahoga County must develop a more complete continuum of care for all health services, and particularly behavioral health and crisis services.

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Care Response (Non-Police Response)

Police officers are not trained or resourced appropriately to respond to calls related to behavioral health, homelessness, substance use or withdrawal, suicidality, or other crises. Providing these types of situations with responders who specialize in social services, healthcare, and crisis intervention will increase acceptance of services and decrease fatal use of force, as  proven in other areas of the country.

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Abortion Access

I served as a board member and eventually board chair at Preterm, Ohio's largest independent abortion provider, for many years. My achievements are due entirely to my own ability to access the care of my choice earlier in life. I remain dedicated to building bridges for access for all community members, funding clinics, and expanding providers' knowledge of abortion care.

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