For over twelve 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, holistic 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 for women in the sex industry.
Early in my career, I spent significant time working with faith communities on social justice action. I organized an interdenominational faith coalition against patriarchal theology and violence.
For years, I wrote for an international blog focused on egalitarian/liberation theology and authored two chapters published in the book Created to Thrive: Cultivating Abuse-Free Faith Communities.
I've campaigned and organized around gender, economic, racial, LGBTQ, labor/union, disability, and reproductive justice issues.
I’ve worked at various human rights and anti-trafficking organizations, a domestic violence shelter, sexual assault crisis center, 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, and Men Accountable for Sexual Exploitation, a court-ordered feminist restorative justice program through Stearns County, that continues to thrive today.
My work spans direct service, systems and legislative change, curriculum development, consulting, coalition-building, critical political analysis, advocacy communications, group facilitation, and direct action. I've lead many marches, rallies, demonstrations, and 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.
I live in central Minnesota and am dedicated to building a more liberated and just world for all!
