Welcome! I'm glad you'e here.

There seems to be an unwritten rule that every social justice activist’s website must contain quotes from a few key people.  For those of you playing Social Justice Bingo along at home, that quote above is from the great Nelson Mandela. And I cannot agree with him more. 

I came to social justice work, and the ways in which I engage with it today, through education. I recall sitting in a college class--an elective, I’ll point out--on LGBTQ history. Names and events that had shaped the world in which I live, people of a community I had grown up in, and it was all brand new information. 

I found similar frustration when I embarked on my first volunteer gig after leaving home for college. I served a youth center as a peer HIV test counselor and sex educator. What I learned in my training about safer sex and healthy relationship building moved me to tears. Why had I not been taught any of this before? As I began seeing clients, I experienced such sadness realizing how different someone’s life could have been had they only known about contraception. This volunteer experience inspired me to change majors and universities, and sexual health and access to accurate health and emotional education has been my mission ever since. You can read a more in-depth professional bio here, see how we can work together over here, and if you're just ready to chat now about partnering, well, you can do that here! 

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Recent Work

Latest Blog
Trauma-Informed Radical Self-Care: Ethical Practice Implications
"It is a staple of every conference in the non-profit world: the survivor of the very issue we are all there to discuss, shares their story. The conference center salad is served: pale romaine leaves, the one sort of red cherry tomato, the two gravy boats of dressing. And out comes the Inspiring Person. 

Inspiring Person shares their story, and those of us in the audience who work as service providers are inspired to keep going. The speaker is the culmination of all of our hopes for our clients. And they may also be a mirror for ourselves. Because if you've ever worked on a social issue, you know that many of your colleagues have direct experience with the issue at hand. And that can be an overwhelmingly powerful thing--or a dangerous phenomenon that will impact that survivor, their colleagues, and your ability as an organization to deliver effective and ethical programming." 
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Upcoming events open to the public
Tuesday, May 14 2019, 11am-1pm
Indiana Youth Institute Youth Worker Cafe for Clark & Floyd Counties
Help for the Healer: Understanding Trauma-Informed Care and Intentional Personal Renewal
Click here for registration info

​Tuesday, June 11, 2019 11am-1pm
Indiana Youth Institute Youth Worker Cafe for Knox County/Vincennes
Help for the Healer: Understanding Trauma-Informed Care and Intentional Personal Renewal
Click here for registration info

​Recent Podcast Guesting
The Long Goodbye. Dear Sugar Radio with Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond​
Finding Wholeheartedness in our Human Expression, De-Mystifying Trauma and the Permission to Be Yourself. Real Genius Life Podcast with Karen Kirchman

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