My journey has always balance a protective drive for justice with a dedication to comfort, fun, learning & sanctuary. Today, that same focused, protective energy drives my macro-level advocacy.

• The Clinical Frontlines:
  For nearly a decade during college, I served as a Community Support Specialist advocating for individuals with disabilities. Since earning my clinical degrees, I have worked as a Qualified Professional on intensive in-home family teams, a school therapist, and an outpatient therapist for all ages across community mental health and private practice. Today, I primarily provide liberation-focused tele-therapy within North Carolina.

• The Systemic Lens:
  My path eventually led me to conducting psychiatric walk-in evaluations and serving as a Local Certified Forensic Evaluator for North Carolina courts. A significant part of these roles involved trying to connect individuals in crisis to vital resources—a task made unnecessarily difficult by the values and structures embedded in our broader society.

• The Macro Pivot:
  Witnessing these structural barriers inspired my return to sociology and human rights scholarship at ASU. My work now focuses on the history, design, and current impacts of systemic pressures on the communities I have spent twenty years serving. I am deeply invested in finding the structural "why" behind collective trauma, while actively exploring how we can refine, edit, and design systems to prioritize healing, reparations, safety, and human dignity.

• When I am not studying or practicing, I live in Western North Carolina where I love reading, thrifting, and practicing archery.