activism

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

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.