Work With Me

Most of my work begins with a question:

How do we remain open-hearted in a world marked by loss, change, and uncertainty?

I explore that question through writing, grief work, community care, ancestry, ecology, pilgrimage, and storytelling. Sometimes that exploration takes the form of essays and creative projects. Sometimes it takes the form of collaboration.

I work with individuals, organizations, publications, conferences, and communities interested in grief, belonging, memory, ecological loss, compassion, and the search for meaning in difficult times.

If something here resonates, I'd love to hear from you.

Write Your Grief

Writing can be a way of remembering. A way of listening. A way of making space for experiences that often resist language.

Write Your Grief is a workshop that invites participants to explore loss, change, longing, and memory through guided writing exercises and reflection. The workshop is suitable for grief of all kinds, including bereavement, ecological grief, identity shifts, migration, caregiving, life transitions, and collective loss.

Designed for organizations, schools, conferences, retreats, and community groups, the workshop creates space for participants to encounter grief not as a problem to solve, but as a relationship to deepen.

No previous writing experience is necessary.

Obituary & Legacy Writing

Some lives deserve more than a standard obituary.

I work with individuals and families to create obituaries, memorial tributes, legacy documents, and other forms of remembrance that honor the complexity of a life.

Whether you are preserving family stories, preparing for your own death, or honoring someone who has died, I can help shape memory into something lasting.

Writing & Creative Collaborations

I am available for selected writing and creative projects. This may include commissioned essays, interviews and conversations, anthologies and collaborative publications, community memory projects, creative grief projects, and podcast appearances and guest contributions.

Speaking & Conversations

I am available for selected talks, panels, interviews, podcasts, and public conversations on grief, death, memory, ancestry, ecological loss, belonging, mutual aid, compassion fatigue, and the role of storytelling in difficult times.

My approach combines practical experience, deep listening, and a commitment to making difficult conversations accessible and human.

Where I'm Coming From

Before focusing primarily on writing, I spent years building mutual aid projects, supporting communities through crisis, leading nonprofits, organizing volunteers, and accompanying people through grief and loss.

I founded Chilis on Wheels, a grassroots mutual aid organization that grew from a single meal-sharing project into a network of chapters across the United States. At its height, the organization included fourteen chapters stretching from New York to California and Hawaii and Puerto Rico, mobilizing hundreds of volunteers and helping feed and support thousands of people through community care, food justice, and animal advocacy.

My work has also included grief support, animal chaplaincy, community organizing, volunteer leadership, education, and nonprofit management. Across these roles, I have spent years helping people navigate loss, uncertainty, transition, and the challenge of sustaining care in difficult times.

I know what it feels like to care deeply. I know what it feels like to keep showing up. I also know what it feels like when the work begins to consume the very people trying to sustain it.

Much of what I bring to workshops, conversations, and collaborations comes from that lived experience: the tension between service and survival, between commitment and exhaustion, between tending the world and tending ourselves.