🔹 Past Work🔹

Founder & Ohio Director | Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Ohio

Dec 2018 – Jul 2024 | Ohio (Hybrid)

• Founded and led a statewide base-building organization mobilizing white Ohioans into multiracial coalitions for racial and economic justice

• Supervised and supported a team of 4 full-time staff; led internal organizational development and strategic planning

• Conducted organizational equity assessments and developed interventions for partner organizations

• Built strategic coalitions across class and race, helping win local and statewide campaigns

• Designed and facilitated political education and leadership development for staff, volunteers, and partner orgs

• Raised funds to increase capacity of BIPOC-led and working-class-led organizing efforts
  
  

Ohio Lead Organizer | SURJ Ohio

Jan 2017 – Dec 2018 | Ohio

• Built regional leadership teams in both rural and urban counties

• Supported BIPOC and working-class led groups through strategic fundraising partnerships

• Designed and implemented equity assessments, campaign plans, and cross-class coalition strategies

• Trained volunteers, developed grassroots leaders, and facilitated campaign-winning organizing efforts

Consultant | Ohio Transformation Fund

Dec 2019 – May 2022 | Remote (Ohio)

• Facilitated the statewide Transforming Justice Network focused on criminal justice reform

• Designed and led strategic planning retreats, organizational development workshops, and skill-building trainings

• Supported 200+ network members with access to funding, scholarships, strategy and collaborative opportunities

Transformative Justice Coach & Consultant | Inspire Justice

Jan 2018 – Jul 2021 | Remote

• Coached artists, creatives, and influencers in transformative justice practices and culture-shifting strategies

• Facilitated workshops on harm reduction, collective accountability, and values-aligned leadership

• Helped public-facing figures integrate justice principles into their work and platforms
  
  

Leadership Team | Showing Up for Racial Justice (National)

Jan 2016 – Dec 2018 | Remote

• Served on the national leadership team and finance committee

• Supported strategic decisions on programming, infrastructure, and long-term vision

• Co-led collaborative strategies addressing the opioid crisis through a racial justice and harm reduction lens

Program Manager | Employment Plus (SF Bay Area)

Sep 2011 – Aug 2014 | San Francisco, CA

• Managed daily operations of a community-based program serving over 50 adults with developmental disabilities

• Supervised and supported a team of 11 full-time staff providing educational and vocational services

• Led program development with a focus on cultural competency and community inclusion

Outreach Counselor | At The Crossroads

Jan 2009 – Apr 2011 | San Francisco, CA

• Provided harm-reduction, trauma-informed counseling to unhoused youth through street outreach and 1-1 sessions

• Supported clients navigating trauma, incarceration, and disconnection from traditional services

• Built relationships rooted in trust, consistency, and cultural humility

Community Manager | Antioch College

Jun 2007 – Aug 2009 | Yellow Springs, OH

• Facilitated Antioch’s unique model of community governance, overseeing 15+ councils and committees

• Led collaborative policy development and institutional transformation during a critical campus transition

• Helped organize the successful alumni campaign to re-establish Antioch as an independent college

🔹 Fellowship & Leadership Cohorts🔹

Movement Leaders Fellowship
Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice (2023–2024)
Selected for a national cohort of seasoned organizers committed to transformative leadership and movement strategy. Focused on building power for long-term democratic change through values-aligned governance, collaboration, and systemic analysis.

Leadership Now Ohio
Rockwood Leadership Institute (2020)
Completed Rockwood’s intensive leadership program for Ohio-based changemakers. Developed practices in personal sustainability, courageous leadership, and transformative relationship-building in service of racial and social justice movements.

Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizing Training Program
Catalyst Project (2019)
Participated in a nationally recognized anti-racist leadership cohort focused on organizing white people for racial justice. Deepened political education, organizing strategy, and accountability practices rooted in the legacy of Southern freedom movements.

🔹 Education🔹

MSW in Macro Social Work, focus on Social Policy, Case Western Reserve University, 2017

B.A. in Cultural Studies & Community Governance, Antioch College, 2008