I am an ecopsychologist and long-time nonprofit development and communications specialist. I cultivate friends, funds, and new perspectives.
My academic and professional pursuits spiral around ecological grief practices, indigenous perspectives on adaptive leadership, systems thinking theory, the evolving landscape of philanthropy, and the social psychology behind ecological and community stewardship. Shifting from old models of wealth and power to communal resource mobilization empowers the whole and creates sustainable impacts for humans and non-human kin.
As an advocate for public lands and public health, my mission focuses on reconnection and reciprocity with the Earth through mindfulness, community, and collective liberation. I love holding space for others to discover their own embodied ways of being rooted in spiritual ecology.
I’m grateful to reside on the unceded territory of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and the Ohlone people. Known as Popeloutchom for millennia, this land is now commonly referred to as Santa Cruz County.
You can find me digging in the dirt in a garden, reading by a river, swimming in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary waters, or slowly roaming a tree-canopied trail with my adopted mutts.