“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.
