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My mission is to help create just, resilient, and sustainable communities for black people, other marginalized people, and all people to thrive in.
I'm a creative, fun-loving, empathetic Black woman in America. I know that everything I have was made possible through the labor, organizing, movement building, love, and pain of my ancestors and those in solidarity with them. Because of the role my identities and the communities I belong to have played in my life, my aim is to help the collective become liberated, not just myself.
Over time I’ve worked to build my understanding of climate, racial, economic and social injustice. Growing up in an upper middle class suburb, I saw what it looks like to have the infrastructure, spaces, and resources a community needs to thrive. Yet most black and historically marginalized folks don’t have what they need to be okay. We live in oppressive systems and spaces, prevented from experiencing life in its fullest form. Meanwhile an accelerating climate crisis harms the most vulnerable folks first and worst.
I want to help dismantle the destructive systems that compound to create racial, economic, social and climate injustice.
By reading and listening to people oriented in justice and liberation work, I’ve come to understand that exploitative capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy and white supremacy work together to cause the harm I aim to help rid the world of. From climate harm to the oppression of black, brown, and poor folks across the world, we need to dismantle these systems to end that harm.
In my professional career, I’ve worked as a product manager and strategist in the climate tech space.
When I left undergrad I knew I wanted to be doing creative work that reached a lot of people. I ended up working in artificial intelligence tech for three years as a product manager. Knowing the climate crisis was worsening, I quickly wanted to be doing work with climate impact. Since I didn’t find that at my first company, I moved to California to work on rooftop solar products.
After four years working to make it simpler, more affordable and better value for homeowners to switch to solar powered homes with backup, I had come to seek work that both reduced emissions and better emphasized the marginalized communities I cared about most. So I took a role a product strategist for a transportation technology company that built software products for cities, transit agencies, and transit operators moving transit-dependent public riders all over the world.
Working in that role solidified for me that the work I need to be doing is work centered in community with principles of sustainability and justice. I want to do work that prioritizes people - especially black and other marginalized people - and allows them to live more free, full lives.
Since then, I’ve been working in design strategy in the infrastructure space, and partnering with mission-driven and community-centered design practices to drive community-based solutions to climate, spatial, and racial injustice.
Through consulting, I aim to use my skills to support mission-aligned nonprofits and social enterprises.
Consulting on projects that are mission aligned has been a great way for me to grow my experience in community and justice-oriented work, and to make impact for the people and causes that need it. I have significant skill in design strategy, project and product management, user and market research, strategic planning, and communication. I also love collaborating on creative work with impact.
For examples of the types of work I’ve done, check out these client stories. If your nonprofit or social enterprise is mission-aligned and you’d like to collaborate, get in touch to let me know what you’re looking for.