I have articulated my work’s purpose and focus below as a way of remaining accountable to my community and connected to my mission-driven work. I acknowledge that these are just words and that the real work manifests in how I impact my collaborators, clients, and community. Thank you for being a part of that accountability. Please feel free to contact me directly if you have thoughts you’d like to share. I am open and welcome your feedback.

My Mission:

I liberate myself and those around me by using art to alchemize pain and confusion into joy and connection.


My Manifesto:

This is our invitation to the revolution. 
This is our invitation to transform.

We are at the beginning of a great turning — a cellular shift that summons human-kind to love one another back to wholeness. This call comes not from some ethereal place, but directly from the Earth herself. 

Synchronizing our innate creativity with the Earth’s cycles is the surest pathway I know to catalyzing that transformational love. Cultivating this kind of radical creative harmony shatters isolation, despair, and consumerism. 

Our creativity is a gift, given to us by the universal mother. It is a birthright, meant to be wielded with great love and joy in the face of pain, trauma, and destruction. Our innate creativity is a bone-deep tool for healing, justice, and revelatory collective liberation. 


My North Star:

Your innate creativity will transform the world. 
Step into the center of your knowing 
and alchemize your pain into joy. 

It will set us all free.


My Justice Lens:

Our liberation is bound together. It is interconnected, interdependent, and collective.

TANGIBLE COMPONENTS — business practices that honor right-relationship, serve to counteract supremacy structures and create access:

  • Equity pricing (Creative Alchemy Cycle)

  • Actionable Land acknowledgement (on my home page) and clear monthly donation cycle as part of my reparations budget to cultural programming led and managed by those within the Nimmipuu (Nez Perce) community. Please see the “transparency in spending & support” list below.

  • All one-on-one coaching sessions are sliding scale / free for those whose voices have been historically marginalized and silenced, and are therefore underrepresented. This means non-white, queer, people with disabilities (visible and non-visible), and people who cannot typically access these kinds of programs due to prohibitive cost and/or cultural insensitivity.

  • Center BIPOC and queer wisdom and voices in teaching materials

  • Transparency in spending & support (scroll down for full list)

  • Inclusive and accessible website

ACCOUNTABILITY — practices that align my work with my justice-forward mission:

VISIONING FORWARD — I want the impact of my work to manifest in the following ways:

  • Co-create pathways to right-relationship

  • Offer nourishing antidotes to supremacy structures

  • Co-create sustainable alternatives to Capitalism

  • Honoring matriarchal wisdom and women & femme voices

  • Get us all FREE

BIPOC Educators and Facilitators:

As an able-bodied, neurotypical, white, cisgender woman, I am devoted to a life-long journey of learning and self-interrogation as it pertains to my privilege. I am committed to partnering with BIPOC leadership in the fight for justice. This continual awakening requires accountability partners, facilitators, and teachers. These are some of the people who influence and inform my allyship:

  • Tracy Brown is a teacher and facilitator shifting the diversity and inclusion conversation from politics and personality to results and relationships. Her book Mine To Do is a foundational text for me. I first met Tracy in Dallas, TX and have attended her workshops in person as well as online. Tracy is a brilliant facilitator and works with businesses and organizations on inclusion strategies that WORK. Hire her HERE.

  • Myriam Joseph Loeschen is an intuitive coach, healer, and storyteller, committed to reframing and changing narratives. Y’all need to do yourself a favor and hire her HERE. Myriam is part of the Catalyst Cohort I work with on a regular basis.

  • Ajuan Mance is a professor of African American literature at Mills College and a lifelong artist and writer. I first encountered Ajuan as a student at Mills College. Their guidance and insight has and continues to help me align my work with a justice lens.

  • adrienne maree brown is an author, doula, women's rights activist and Black feminist. Their book Emergent Strategies is a seminal text for my work as a facilitator and artist. You can find adrienne on Instagram.

  • Sonya Renee Taylor is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology, a digital media and education company promoting radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice and global transformation. I am deeply influenced by her work and support Sonya’s outreach on a monthly basis through Patreon. You can also find Sonya on Instagram.

Transparency in Spending & Support:

I am an independent artist and entrepreneur. Sharing where I spend my earned income is one way to remain in right-relationship with my clients and partners. As the sole bread-winner for my family, my income goes largely towards medical care for my family, local food sources, some student debt, savings, and monthly bills including mortgage, internet, water, electricity, gas, garbage, and cell phones.

The remainder of my income goes towards donations and overhead related to my business such as supplies, shipping, continuing education, and books. I’m proud to financially support the folks listed below. These are BIPOC and queer individuals and businesses, as well as artists who experience disability, local farms and justice-aligned service organizations. I encourage you to do the same.

BIPOC & QUEER OWNED BUSINESSES & INDEPENDENT ARTISTS

  • Adrienne Oliver — Adrienne is a poet, speaker, curator, facilitator, and mother.

  • B. Merikle — an art experimentalist and paradigm shifter creating work focused on unhooking from whiteness and de-centering whiteness - especially from the creative and sensual lives of black womxn and femmes.

  • Edna’s Booktique — Enda’s Booktique is an independent bookstore located in Duncanville (Dallas), Texas, founded by Enda Jean Pemberton Jones, an African American educator and chaplain. This is where I get my books.

  • Gwenn Seemel — a queer artist and writer, feminist and uncopyrighting advocate.

  • Garlia Cornelia — a creative polymath, theatre artist, writer, producer, photographer, and podcaster. I first encountered Garlia’s work at a conference in New York.

  • Kelcey Anya Performing Arts Academy (KAPAA) — a multi-disciplinary performing artist hailing from the bayous of South Louisiana. Kelcey founded KAPAA in New York City and features a summer summit focused on theatrical technique, poetry, playwriting and musical production for youth ages 10-17. I donate to Kelcey’s programming and scholarship funds.

  • Mindy Tsonas Choi — Mindy is an artist, activist, bridge builder, and the founder of the Be Seen Project - a grassroots mutual aid initiative resourcing and amplifying BIPOC artists and makers who are using their work to center marginalized voices and create social justice and cultural change.

  • Nikki Blak — Nikki is a writer, sociologist, womanist, and intersectional feminist whose art interrogates social constructs and affirms Blackness. Her thought leadership and radical education work centers marginalized and oppressed populations in the United States.

  • Yusef Seevers for Arbonne — Yusef is a theatre maker, educator, dancer, and musician. He is also a consultant for Arbonne. I purchase nutritional supplements and wellness items through his business.

LOCAL ORGANIC FARMS

  • Hedge Rose Farm — a small, diversified, queer-owned, primarily horse-powered farm in Eastern Oregon, focused on producing healthy, sustainable vegetables, fruits, and meats.

  • Eagle Creek Orchard — an organic orchard in Eastern Oregon rooted in sustainable practices and food sovereignty. They believe that people have a right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.

ORGANIZATIONS

  • Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland — The mission of the Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland (NPWH) is to enrich relationships among Nez Perce descendants and the contemporary inhabitants of Wallowa, to create a physical place to preserve and celebrate Native culture, and to tell the Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) story in Wallowa. I donate monthly to NPWH.

  • Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment — Grassroots Nimiipuu-led coalition organizing around time-honored sustainable environmental practices and protecting tribal lands and tribal treaty rights within their original ceded area and beyond. I donate monthly to NPE.

  • Shakespeare In Detroit — Shakespeare in Detroit is a BIPOC-led nonprofit organization that enhances and supports the cultural, educational and financial growth of Detroit with professional theatre created through a conscious lens of equity, diversity and inclusion.

  • Color of Change — Color of Change is designing powerful campaigns to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. I donate annually.

  • NAACP Legal Defense Fund — The NAACP working to reform policing in America. I donate annually.

  • Planned Parenthood — Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide. Planned Parenthood saved my life as a young woman without resources. Now, I give every year.