I am a farm girl turned international aid worker turned coach, writer, and communications strategist.

(But mostly I am a poet.)

I am one of Foreign Policy Magazine's "100 women to follow on Twitter” @intldogooder.

I am a re(sister) and a change embracer.

I am an author and a blogger. (smartrisks.org & how-matters.org)

I am an advisory circle member of Healing Solidarity (healingsolidarity.org), an annual conference and online space focused on reimagining global development practice.

I am always learning how to connect and convey the realities of people’s lives, their struggles, their strengths – as well as outsiders’ roles and mistakes – in an impatient, “silver bullet solutions” world.

I am an affiliate and instructor of “Storytelling and Communications for Social Change” as part of the University of Vermont Masters in Leadership for Sustainability Program.

I am a gentle advocate for verifiable facts.

I am a listener to what is below below.

I am an interrogator of the mythologies associated with my U.S. German settler ancestry.

I accompany people to heal and thrive in community.

I am - hopefully - an assurer of grace.