In 2018, I was the lead advocate working in a grassroots and grassroots fashion towards the (successful) passage of Alaska’s first — and the nation’s broadest — Trauma-Informed Government policy. Since then I have participated in many legislative education and advocacy opportunities, including presenting on trauma-informed policymaking to the legislature, co-authoring a policy brief on the topic, and working with the Governor’s Office to organize a conference for State Department leadership on trauma and trauma-informed policy. I also presented to the US Senate Afterschool Caucus in 2019, co-organized a series of 2020 policymaker forums on childcare that contributed to an additional $20.5M added to state and municipal budgets to stabilize the childcare sector, organized a mothers’ advocacy meeting with Senator Murkowski in 2022 in concert with Moms Rising, and organized two policy-focused film screenings in 2023. These film screenings, held in Alaska’s capital and in Anchorage with a federal and state policymaker panel, have been credited with advancing regulatory and policy change on childcare. I have engaged in community organizing since my teen years, so I am comfortable working on a grassroots level, as well as speaking with policymakers — so long as we are advancing policy that benefits families and advances equity.

I would love to support your agency with planning, organizing, and executing your policy advocacy goals, whether that means helping form grassroots organizing strategies, preparing materials and schedules for legislative fly-ins, helping track and advance legislation, or creating and disseminating films to move the hearts and minds of policymakers.