I am collaborating with Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, PhD — the Wendell Miller Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa in the United States — on two projects.

One is a working academic paper, Communicating Collective Care: Possibilities at the Nexus of Reproductive Justice and Veganism, presented at the Reproductive Futures: Emergent Injustices, Hopes and Paradoxes conference in Finland, June 2022. The paper explores theories of how multispecies care, reproductive justice and veganism can address the need for a broad-scale reimagining of ethical, sustainable, and compassionate collective life on the planet.

The second project queries how to reimagine kin in ways that invite more expansive and compassionate understandings of belonging and community.

Drugs Don’t Work. Or Do They? Zara Snapp’s Unorthodox Answer To Mexico’s Drug Problem

In issue 21 of Dua Lipa’s (free) subscription-only newsletter, Service95 you can find my interview of Zara Snapp, a fierce drug advocacy reform advocate in Mexico. Snapp seeks to legalize and regulate all drugs in Mexico in an effort to combat drug-related crime and violence. #service95

My essays touch on topics as diverse as health, adulting, marriage, and race relations. To lighten the mood, I always weave in observational humor. Memoir forthcoming.

I work to capture intimate oral histories of family elders in the winter season of their lives.

Leveraging my compassionate narrative-communication expertise, I help individuals authentically and comfortably relay their stories. I aim to create safe spaces to capture difficult or sensitive topics. This approach helps me establish a meaningful rapport to unlock stories often not told in entirety to family members.

These stories connect clients to their history and preserve the foundational understanding of those whose shoulders we stand upon.

I come as one, but I stand as ten thousand. - Maya Angelou