About the Founder

I’m a writer, coach, and creative strategist who believes that storytelling and embodiment are essential tools for justice and transformation.

For over two decades, I’ve used narrative, somatics, and systems thinking to help communities and institutions heal, evolve, and thrive. My work lives at the intersection of personal transformation and social impact — cultivating spaces where people feel seen, supported, and free to imagine beyond the status quo.

As the founder of the Rikers Public Memory Project, I co-lead a citywide truth and healing initiative that uses oral history and public storytelling to make the case for reparative justice in New York City. Through this work, I support communities directly impacted by incarceration to shift public narratives, archive lived experience, and advocate for systems change.

Whether I’m coaching mission-driven leaders, training teams in embodied facilitation, or consulting on equity strategy, my focus is clear:
✴ to center the wisdom of those most impacted by injustice,
✴ to foster cultures of care and accountability,
✴ and to use narrative as a catalyst for collective liberation.

My work has been featured in FastCompany, Audible for Business, Stanford Social Innovation Review, HuffPost, and other national platforms. I’ve been honored as a New School Writing Democracy Fellow, a Culture Push Fellow for Utopian Practice, a TED Resident, an Aspen Ideas Fellow, and a Radical Imagination Fellow with The Laundromat Project.

Through it all, my purpose remains the same:
To build spaces where healing is possible, systems can shift, and the future feels spacious again.