when i closed crown nine after fourteen years, i designed the campaign that raised $200,000 ○ segmented lists, personal outreach to my most loyal supporters, and deadline-driven appeals ○

40–60% open rates, about double the industry average ○ an automated follow-up series with a 75% open rate that recovered $115,000 over two years ○ every message built from voice-of-customer research: what people actually say, in their own words ○

founder & creative director, 2011–2025 ○ 100+ vendor and 30+ artist partner accounts ○ monthly first friday exhibitions, funded in part by small grants ○ best jeweler sf bay area (7x7) and top 100 shops (sf chronicle) ○

websites, copy, and email systems for small businesses and mission-driven clients ○ donor and customer platforms like givebutter ○ proposals and quarterly reporting tied to measurable outcomes ○ squarespace gold designer ○

case manager & client navigator, WORLD, oakland ○ connecting hiv-positive women to the full web of services in their care

program coordinator, girls inc. of alameda county ○ seven teachers, 75 multilingual students

teach for america, south bronx ○ teen pregnancy prevention coalition of san mateo county ○ teen talk educator, redwood city ○

b.a. collaborative health & human services, csu monterey bay, including grant writing and nonprofit management ○ permaculture design certification, occidental arts & ecology center ○ business planning, renaissance center for entrepreneurship ○ the science & art of herbalism with rosemary gladstar ○

hands in the garden ○ hiking ○ paddleboarding ○ volunteering at heron shadow, an indigenous farm in graton, and with farm to pantry ○

little door, my music → littledoormusic.com ○

writing samples, from my substack →

heartbreak you can dance to, on flaco el jandro's world of romanticumbia ○

ghosting spotify: a how-to guide ○

what brian eno told me ○

the archetype deck, a card deck i invented, designed, and printed → archetype readings ○

the three mothers, anna malaika tubbs ○

lilith's brood (the xenogenesis trilogy, ending in imago), octavia butler ○

the will to change, bell hooks ○

we are the middle of forever, dahr jamail & stan rushworth ○

the book of form and emptiness, ruth ozeki ○

i ditched my cell phone for a year and a half ○ i shoot photos on film ○ i invented an archetype deck ○ i speak conversational spanish ○ i'm a mom to two girls, six and eight, and doing my best to raise them in a non-coercive, cooperative way ○