About Me

I help socially-focused organizations and community leaders build capacity for meaningful change. With nearly two decades of experience, I bring together cutting-edge research and human-centered design to help clients create crucial solutions through collaborative and creative processes. I specialize in program development, strategic evaluation, and co-designing impactful learning and leadership curricula for organizations across the public, corporate, and non-profit sectors.

• I partner with non-profits, community leaders, and local governments by providing program and community development evaluation and assessment services that are based on asset-based development principles and community-led evaluation techniques.

• I co-design and facilitate multi-stage capacity building programs and instructional curricula and have delivered over 200 workshops for partners ranging from the City of Columbus Department of Health to The US Department of Transportation. I currently co-design and facilitate the Near East Side Neighborhood Leadership Academy since 2020.

• I’m also an author! I have contributed to a number of both research and public-facing publications, notably authoring The Principles for Equitable and Inclusive Civic Engagement:  A Guide to Transformative Change, The keystone publication regarding racially equitable civic engagement for non-profit and governmental agencies for The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. 

• I was a social researcher at The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity for 12 years and am also a two time graduate of The Ohio State University, having received a MSW from the College of Social Work and a B.S in City and Regional Planning from the Knowlton School of Architecture, as well as receiving an A.S in Geography from Columbus State Community College.