Writer
I write about what we inherit, what we believe, what the evidence changes, and who we become when we are willing to look again.
My work moves through my thoughts, my memories, and my lived experience, asking what holds, what needs to be questioned, what changes when I look again, and what experience can teach me.
Selected Writing
My Writing
I write from what I’ve lived, what I believe, what I remember, and what I’m still learning to question.
Featured Essay
What My Life Says Back
From Affirmation to Evidence. A reflection on what happens when the things I believe have to hold up against what my life has actually shown me.
About Me
Writer.
I write from lived experience, memory, faith, study, and years of community leadership. I ask what holds, what changes under examination, and what experience can teach us when we are willing to look again.
From the Archive
Earlier forms. Ongoing questions.
Old notebooks, early questions, and fragments of writing show that many of the questions were taking shape long before they had names.
Earlier forms. Ongoing questions. A record of becoming.
My work. Elsewhere.
Churchill Fellowship Case Study
“My daughter Gabrielle and I are part of a case study in Jimmy Pickering’s Churchill Fellowship report on parent and carer organizing. Our experience comes up throughout the report in discussions of leadership, accountability, relationships, and school-repair organizing.”
Chalkbeat New York
NYC launches ‘campus revival’ program to upgrade neglected school buildings
Chalkbeat New York reported on the Bushwick school-repair campaign, including Gabrielle’s account of the conditions that led me to get more deeply involved in organizing with East Brooklyn Congregations and push for long-overdue repairs.
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