I have been an activist my entire adult life, supporting progressive causes since a freshman at the University of New Hampshire in 2003:
My undergraduate studies focused on international human rights and my senior project championed women’s reproductive rights. As a student leader in 2007, I founded a campus organization for mental health awareness. As a full-time social worker from 2007 to 2012, I advocated for some of the most vulnerable populations in our society. Over many years as an educator in diverse settings, I worked to level the playing field for recent immigrant students. I served as board VP of my local time bank, demonstrating my support for economic justice. As a journalist for over ten years, I consistently used my platform to further dialogues on the causes that inspired me most.
My creative writing often centers on raising awareness for the causes I am the most passionate about. I have published work on elders’ rights, wealth inequality, climate action, criminal justice reform, and reproductive freedom. I hope to continue to use my writing to support causes that end suffering and create a more just world.
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 late Boston Mayor Menino in 2008. Our organization presented him with an award for his work against domestic violence.