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. I have nearly a decade of experience influencing legislation, and decades of experience organizing and influencing politics.

I have engaged in and led successful community organizing since 2000 (e.g. helping our college housekeepers unionize and negotiate their first contract, influencing municipal and state budgets), have led policy advocacy efforts since 2017, and have a lobbyist profile set up with the State of Alaska, having passed the APOC ethics training.

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 Growing Alaskan Leaders, and organized two policy-focused film screenings in 2023 & two policy-focused film screenings in 2025. These film screenings, held in Alaska’s capital, in Anchorage with a federal and state policymaker panel, and in Wasilla with state and local policymakers and practitioners, as well as the one-on-one legislative education efforts I led and constituent meetings I organized, have been credited with advancing regulatory and policy change on early childhood issues, including the passage of a bill to expand and fund the Infant Learning Program, which became law in June 2026.

I emceed an “empty chair town hall” in March 2025 for Alaskan constituents to be heard on the federal issues affecting them. 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.

And most recently, I have been facilitating the policy workgroup for The Alliance, a cross-sector initiative focused on community wellness and reducing the harms associated with excess alcohol use. I will also be working across partners to lead efforts to modernize and index Alaska’s alcohol excise tax for inflation.

Let me help advance the causes you care about!