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 bringing cutting edge research and national best practices to bear to address local challenges through program and community development, evaluation 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.