I help movements build power, move resources, and create systems that can hold the weight of the work.
I’m a strategist, organizer, and network builder. Right now I’m Managing Director at Green Leadership Trust and, with a group of comrades, building Circle, a movement-owned infrastructure project for relationship stewardship, governance, fundraising, and collaboration.
After more than a decade supporting climate and racial justice organizations, I’m building Circle alongside comrades: movement-owned relationship infrastructure for organizations that need better ways to organize, fundraise, govern, collaborate, and steward trust.
Circle comes from a simple belief: movements should not have to depend on extractive tools to manage the relationships, knowledge, and decisions that make their work possible.
Explore CircleI spend a lot of time thinking about:
Most of my work lives somewhere in that overlap.
I’m building Circle with comrades to help movement organizations take more control over their data, relationships, and ways of working.
The goal is practical: help people organize better, fundraise better, govern better, collaborate better, and steward the trust their work depends on.
It comes out of years of supporting organizations as they navigate growth, governance, fundraising, leadership transitions, and all the infrastructure that sits underneath movement work — and it’s being built collectively, by people who know that work from the inside.
Circle is for people who:
Everything below is the experience that led to Circle — more than a decade inside the systems it’s being built to support.
I work with organizations that want boards to be more than a compliance structure.
That can mean helping them:
I’ve supported board development and governance strategy for early-stage groups, national networks, and organizations in moments of growth, transition, or reset.
Through Green Leadership Trust and other work, I spend a lot of time building connective tissue.
That looks like:
Green Leadership Trust includes more than 200 members working across climate, philanthropy, governance, and racial justice.
I write about climate, racial justice, and power.
My work has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, and I’m the author of This Book Will Save the Planet, part of the Empower the Future series.
The through line is simple: climate change is not separate from inequality. It is one of its outcomes.
I pay close attention to who builds the tools movements rely on, who controls them, and who they ultimately serve.
That focus runs underneath all of this work, and it’s a large part of why I’m building Circle:
People talk about better tools. Better data. Better models. Better dashboards.
But the climate crisis did not happen because we lacked technology. It came out of systems designed to concentrate power and extract from people and land.
If those systems stay intact, better tools just help them move faster.
The questions I care about are more basic:
I grew up in Washington, DC, watching gentrification, displacement, and the racial wealth gap reshape the city in real time.
I came into this work through organizing: anti-war work, housing justice, and community-based support systems.
That grounding still shapes how I think about power, responsibility, and what people owe each other.
Outside of work, I like to make things.
I’m usually somewhere in the middle of:
I like understanding how things are built, whether that’s a house, a system, a board, or an organization.
I take on a small number of projects, usually focused on:
I usually work with organizations at key transition points: growth, leadership change, strategic reset, or the moment when the old systems stop working and people need to build something stronger.
Most of that work is with organizations working toward climate and racial justice.