pieces of my story…

For as long as I can remember, I have sought to understand, explore, and express my experience of feeling both ultimately different from anyone else and aware of and part of everything; the particle and the wave.  My ancestry, lineages from four continents interwoven by love and colonialism, and my associated mixed racial and cultural identities have compounded my core experience of being both one thing and many.  My personal growth and development are guided by and the expression of my compulsion to hear and attune to the dynamic harmonics of my complex experience; to discover and imagine configurations of existence that can hold and express it, and to live them. My personal work is to understand, love, heal and integrate my many parts; to be each of them and all of them; a system and an individual. My service work is to share with, support, and learn from other living beings towards their own and our collective healing, connection, and realization. 

The tools I bring to bear in my work, acquired intentionally and gathered from coincidence include: ecological literacy, the ability to navigate complex systems, deep listening, practices for introspection and diverse communication, divination from nature and dreams, creative expression, authenticity, vulnerability, forgiveness, gratitude, and love.  I strive to apply and share these intuitively, to decolonize, reconnect, activate, empower, nourish and tend the systems, communities, and individuals I encounter towards their full expression.

Over the last decade, my work has specifically pursued the recovery of salmon and rivers as a core mechanism for healing and re-building resilient ecosystems and human communities in California, and cultivating and holding spaces for reconciliation, collaboration, connection, and trust building among people engaged with the environment from the diverse perspectives of conservation, resource management, resource extraction, eco-psychology, environmental justice and indigenous wisdom. I do this work from a deep sense of the essential opportunity for us to reconnect with one another, with nature, and with life and to move from that connected place.  My prayer is that we realize that opportunity.