activism

“During my childhood I knew there was more to life than the bourgeois pursuit of security.” – Rabbi Mayer Schiller

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

“No one is free until we are all free.” – MLK Jr.


One common thread throughout my diverse academic, professional and volunteering history has been my commitment to service. I cannot remember a time when I did not feel a profound spiritual calling to reduce human suffering.

My undergraduate research was largely focused on themes of international human rights. As a student leader, I founded a campus organization focusing on mental health awareness. As a social worker, I advocated for some of the most vulnerable populations in our society. As an educator, I worked to level the playing field for recent immigrant students. As a board member of my local time bank, I demonstrated my support for economic justice. As a journalist and writer, I have used my voice to promote gun control, police reform and anti-racism.

I hope that my work will continue to lead me in exciting directions where I get to use my unique skill set and background to serve humanity.

  • With one of my heroes, Daniel Ellsberg, publisher of the Pentagon Papers. Cambridge 2009.
  • With actor Paul Dano, promoting his film Being Flynn about urban homelessness. Cambridge 2012.
  • In downtown Boston, standing up for whistleblower protections in 2013.
  • Accepting the UNH Movers and Shakers Award in 2007 for founding a campus mental health advocacy organization.
  • Presenting my undergraduate thesis on women’s reproductive rights in Mexico. UNH, 2007.
  • Behind the camera at Occupy Boston in 2011, listening to a lecture by the late activist Kwame Somburu.
  • Black Lives Matter march in Gloucester in 2020 just following the death of George Floyd.
  • Behind the camera with UNH students at an anti-war protest at the New Hampshire statehouse in 2007.
  • Behind the camera at the National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, MA, Thanksgiving Day, 2010.
  • Behind the camera at an Occupy Boston rally in Dorchester in 2011 against police brutality and racial profiling.
  • Behind the camera at an Occupy Boston/Occupy Wall Street march in Boston in 2011.
  • Protesting the Westboro Baptist Church on the UNH Campus in 2003. (Credit: Bettina Stephenson, The New Hampshire.)
  • With actor Benicio Del Toro at a special screening of “Che”, in which he played the titular Marxist revolutionary. Cambridge 2009.
  • With late Boston Mayor Menino in 2008. Our organization presented him with an award for his work against domestic violence.