I grew up white in a blue-collar family in the woods and fields of so-called Indiana. My people come from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Germany, Russia and France and were among early settlers following buffalo trails through the bluegrass to colonize stolen land throughout Appalachia and up into the midwest.
Quakers at Earlham College invited me to articulate my values and attach them to social action. A decade in Philadelphia taught me about hoagies and pho, nonprofit burnout, tending bar, and pediatric nursing. Love brought me to Georgia in 2015, where I live with my best friend in Stone Mountain.
I am an educator and organizer who is passionate about biocultural diversity, community based food, health and healing, youth work, and growing roots in Southern organizing traditions. I support and am supported by relationships with the People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond, Southern Movement Assembly, Project South, Atlanta Anti-Racist Organizing Committee, European Dissent ATL, West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, AFM Quakers for Racial Equality, Harriet Tubman Foot Clinic, Showing Up for Racial Justice ATL, and neighbors who haven’t decided on fancy names.
I love music, hammocks, sharing food and pushing my growing edge with white kin to undo white supremacy from within and organize for liberation of all beings and our environment.