Speculative fiction writer exploring the edges of technology, ecology, resilience, and rebellion.
Nonprofit leader protecting ecosystems through civic education, policy advocacy, and litigation.
Executive Director, Whidbey Environmental Action Network
WEAN is a 38 year old enviromental nonprofit protecting ecosystems in the Salish Sea through civic education, policy advocacy, and litigation.
Novelist, The Alis Switch
My forthcoming debut novel follows characters navigating ecological collapse and ancestral inheritance, asking what we owe to the living, the lost, and the not-yet-born.
My writing asks what we owe to one another across every boundary we have drawn — between the domesticated and the wild, the living and the ancestors, the present and the future — and suggests that the answer, in every case, is love.
Family and community
I share my Whidbey Island home with my husband Tim ( Heavy Light Works), three equines (Brays Of Our Lives), three dogs, and two cats. I enjoy riding motorcycles at the track and on the road; training with my miniature donkey, Melvin, for our first pack burro race; and restoring forest and meadow habitat on our five acre farm. I have six adult children and step-children, and Tim and I welcomed our first grandchild in Fall 2025.
Career and education
I have a BA in English and will earn an MSL in Environmental, Climate, and Energy Law in 2027. Before joining WEAN as executive director, I served as a donor organizer with Showing Up for Racial Justice; as a co-executive director at the Whidbey Institute; and as a freelance writer and consultant. I'm a certified Language of Spaces facilitator and coach and an elected school board member.