About me
My own experience growing up in a violent home drew me to this work. I first trained as a DV/SA Advocate as a college student in 2005 and started my first post-college job at Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services of Whatcom County two years later. That foundation as an advocate has informed my entire career—working on a gender-based-violence project as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uganda, social work practicums focused on foster care and older adults, managing programs at a legal aid non-profit, and now getting to work on local policies with cross-disciplinary teams at the Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence.
Working on this restorative justice project has challenged me to think expansively about what healing and justice could look like for survivors.
I have two little kids who keep me very busy and make me laugh a lot. You’ll probably see me knitting in workshops--I’m slowly knitting a sweater which I was working on at last year’s conference and I haven’t given up yet!