For over thirteen years, I've confronted men's violence head-on, training thousands to recognize and dismantle it. In 2017, I received the Micah Award for my "courage, creativity, and tenacity" in fighting abuse.
Today, I use my voice to advocate and educate on gender/power-based violence prevention, equitable relationships, comprehensive sexuality, community organizing, and social change.
My journey began as a student activist. I took on rape culture and founded Minnesota's first Students Against Trafficking & Sexploitation (SATS), and co-founded an outreach to women in the sex industry.
Early in my career, I spent significant time working with faith communities on social justice action. I founded an interdenominational faith coalition against patriarchal theology and violence. I authored several viral blogs and published two chapters for CBE International's book Created to Thrive: Cultivating Abuse-Free Faith Communities.
Throughout the years, I've campaigned and organized around a wide range of gender, economic, racial, LGBTQ, labor/union, disability, immigrant, reproductive justice, and voter issues.
I’ve worked at various human rights and anti-trafficking organizations, a domestic violence shelter, sexual assault crisis center, state government, higher education, public safety, and directed a campus women’s center. I've spent over a decade counseling survivors, advocating for interpersonal and institutional equity, and training professionals.
I created central Minnesota's first Safe Harbor program for survivors of the sex trade. I also created and facilitated Men Accountable for Sexual Exploitation, a court-ordered program for offenders through Stearns County, that continues to thrive a decade later.
My work spans direct service, systems and legislative change, curriculum development, counseling, consulting, coaching, coalition-building, critical socio-political analysis, advocacy communications, group facilitation, lobbying, liberatory education, issue campaigns, program creation, and direct action. I've also lead and organized many marches, rallies, demonstrations, and awareness events. I've served as an advisor on national and local anti-violence coalitions, and in 2024, I was selected for the Harvard/UMN Minnesota Young American Leaders Program for my cross-sector collaboration and civic engagement work.
Though much of my work originated in the central/Saint Cloud area, I am now based in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) of Minnesota and am dedicated to building a more liberated and just world for all!
