About Me
Personal Values
Warmth: be kind, love deeply, stay playful, live with intention
Integrity: be honest, stay reliable, do what’s right, be accountable
Imagination: be curious, create boldly, dream expansively
Collective Care: elevate others, share power, build belonging, steward community well-being
Service: support communities, give generously, advance justice
Nature: learn from it, rest in it, protect it, grow with it
Skills and experience
24 years of experience working with young people and families
Developing and sustaining meaningful partnerships
Building and managing teams
Community outreach
Advocacy
Project planning and management
Camping and hiking
Grant writing
Working in high performing and fast-paced environments
Clinical work
Understanding trauma, Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences (PACES) including community PACES and the importance of protective factors
Commitment to learning and action, anti-racist practices, social justice issues and healing centered/trauma informed approaches.
Emerging Consulting Services
Inspirational Quotes
“Healing looks like patience, courage, commitment, forgiveness, exercise, water, nature, love, laughter, agency, you, me, and the mirror.” -Sizwe Andrews Abakah (see Flourish Agenda, Inc. on Instagram, May 12, 2020)
“The best classroom and the widest cupboard is roofed only by the sky.” -Margaret McMillan
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today matters most. “ - Buddha
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.”-James Baldwin
“Wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine.” -Sun Tzu
“Remember, we must love.” -(character) Dr. Ian Kelson
Recent Reading
Ikigai, Hector Garcia
Social change Ecosystem Map, Deepa Iyer
Great Garden Champions, Sally Jean Cunningham
The Four Pivots, Shawn Ginwright
Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism, Adrienne Maree Brown
Rest Is Resistance, A Manifesto, Tricia Hersey
My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa Menakem
The Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo
Geoseed 2026 catalog
Current Reading
Loving Corrections, Adrienne Maree Brown
Mid-Atlantic Home Landscaping, 4th Edition, 46 Landscape Designs With 200+ Plants & Flowers For Your Region, Roger Holmes and Rita Buchanan
Other Life Goals
Get an addition on our house so we can move our parents in and have family members come visit and relax here
Turn our property into a retreat space with walking gardens
Go to the Azores.
Leave this life in a space of love, humility, and compassion.
