About

I have been studying Nonviolent Communication since 2009 and supporting others in learning it since 2014. I have studied personal and organization development through the Nonviolent Global Liberation Apprenticeship Program and Learning Community. I have training in conflict mediation from the Chicago Center for Conflict Resolution. I have an M.A. in Human Services (including courses in career, relationship, group, trauma, and grief counseling) and a Ph.D. in Physics. I have been a physics professor and an astronomy curriculum developer, teaching assistant supervisor, higher education consultant, and a consultant and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. I am a white European American with a lower middle class background, I am queer, nonbinary transgender, probably autistic, polyamorous, and living with ADHD. I am trauma- and disability-informed, anti-racist, feminist, and I welcome alternative sexualities and religions.

Influences

• Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness, by Frederic Laloux
• Holacracy
• Nonviolent Communication
• The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures, by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy
• Miki Kashtan
  • Spinning Threads of Radical Aliveness: Transcending the Legacy of Separation in Our Individual Lives
  • Reweaving Our Human Fabric: Working Together to Create a Nonviolent Future
  • The Highest Common Denominator: Using Convergent Facilitation to Reach Breakthrough Collaborative Decisions
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolk
• Creative Interventions Toolkit
• Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshhmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• The Chalice and the Blade, by Riane Eisler
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire