For over fourteen years, I've confronted interpersonal and state-sanctioned men's violence head-on, training thousands to recognize and resist in all its forms. In 2017, I received an international organization's Micah Award for my "courage, creativity, and tenacity" in fighting abuse.
I use my voice to advocate and educate on power-based violence prevention, equitable relationships, sexuality, community organizing, and social change.
In my current full-time role, I serve as a statewide educator in Minnesota to train professionals and the public on technology-facilitated sexual violence, online abuse/exploitation/trafficking, and emerging issues in cybercrimes against women and youth. --- My work experience spans subject matter expertise and thought leadership, 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, policy development, community outreach, and direct action. I've also lead and organized many marches, rallies, demonstrations, and awareness events.
I’ve worked at various human rights and anti-trafficking organizations, a domestic violence shelter, sexual assault crisis advocacy center, state government, higher education, public safety, and directing a university women’s center. I've spent over a decade counseling abuse survivors, training professionals, and advocating for interpersonal and institutional equity.
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 commercial sex offenders through Stearns County, that continues over a decade later. 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. Throughout the years, I've campaigned and organized around a wide range of gender, economic, racial, LGBT, labor/union, disability, immigrant, reproductive justice, electoral politics, and voter issues. --- My journey began as a student activist. I took on rape culture and founded Minnesota's first Students Against Trafficking & Sexploitation (SATS) organization. Early in my career, I spent significant time working with faith communities on social justice action. I founded an interdenominational faith coalition to advocate against patriarchal theology and violence, authored several viral blogs, and published two chapters in CBE International's book Created to Thrive: Cultivating Abuse-Free Faith Communities.
I have extensive experience working alongside and educating a diverse spectrum of audiences based on identity, beliefs, lived experience, geography, and profession.
I am a proud resident of the social change supercenter: the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN).
