I am a writer, communications strategist, and philanthropy practitioner based in Colorado. My work sits at the intersection of narrative, place, public understanding, and social change — especially in communities whose stories, assets, and power are too often flattened by distance, policy, media, or philanthropy itself.
Professionally, I work in strategic communications and external influence in philanthropy, with a focus on how institutions can communicate more clearly, listen more deeply, and use their platforms in ways that support equity, dignity, and community-defined change. I am especially interested in rural power, health equity, environmental justice, narrative change, and the ways public stories shape what becomes possible.
This site is a place for public learning. Some pieces are personal essays. Some are field notes. Some are reflections from my professional practice. Across all of them, I am trying to pay attention to how people make meaning in hard conditions: how communities protect land and water, how memory travels across generations, how institutions can either reinforce or interrupt inequity, and how language can clarify, obscure, or shift power.
My current writing is shaped by an arts and ecology residency near San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile. From that desert landscape, I am exploring questions that also matter in Colorado: water scarcity, rural identity, Indigenous knowledge and self-determination, extractive economies, tourism, climate adaptation, philanthropy, and the stories communities tell about survival, belonging, and the future.
I write from my own vantage point: as a learner, a practitioner, and a person accountable to the limits of my perspective. I do not write as an expert on every place or community I encounter. I write to notice, question, connect, and keep learning in public.
