Healthcare

• Patient Experiences within Healthcare Appointments and Hospitals: wristband demographical information, intake forms, focus on accurate health information outside of colonized/binary approaches, software interfaces

• Provider Communication: written accessibility, gender affirming care, staff training, resource guidelines, FAQs, technical support, data collection shifts and goals

• Worked with Legacy Health and Oregon Health and Sciences’ (OHSU) Cancer Knight Center to address systemic transphobia and bias across healthcare settings (2015-2016), moving towards a vision of affirming care

Education

• ADA Compliance: 504 plan development and family advocacy, including mentoring teachers on implementation.

• Neurodiversity and Accessibility within and Outside of Special Education: Used a youth-centered approach to lead collaborative models to meet needs of neurodiverse learners beyond legal compliance. Advocated for language, practices, family communication, and pedagogy that meets needs of learners, and addressed disablism outside a medical-diagnostic framework. Provided recommendations for schools to reimagine accessibility as a celebration of diversity.

• Centered narrative and experiential data from students and families to alter policy and practices involving family communication, school registration, DACA awareness, family affinity groups, culturally appropriate lessons, data and assessment transparency, mental health support and wrap-around services, and discipline system protocols and change

• Worked with district leaders to build support programming, clear policy, and needs assessment for LGBTQIA2S+ learners

• Translated the Oregon Department of Education ethnic studies and health education standards into school and district-wide compliance, programming shifts, curriculum, resources, and staff training

I can provide thorough review and feedback during brainstorm, writing, or editing phases of articles, books, presentations, resource guides, policy documents, social media content, and more. My process will center around the particular needs of the client, such as tone evaluation, accessibility, and content accuracy.

Areas of Expertise: gender diversity, sexuality, disability, neurodiversity, reproductive justice, hormonal science and healthcare, youth education, effective pedagogy, trauma-informed practices, social-emotional intelligence, parenting support, chronic illness, mental health, healthcare systems

Collaborators

Sex Positive Families, LLC, Oregon Public School Districts

Every organization has strengths and areas of improvement. I excel at listening to values, needs, and concerns as I create organizational assessments and/or training. I bring enthusiasm and ability to celebrate effectiveness paired with clear feedback and recommendations. I am available to complete the entire process- needs assessment, data analysis, strategic planning, stakeholder communication, training, resource development, success indicators, and adaptive shifts. I can also provide support during specific moments of challenge. As an experienced educator, I am highly skilled at understanding audience needs, differentiating content, and simplifying complex concepts into practical action steps.

Training Topics

• Implicit Bias and Discrimination within School Discipline

• Neurodiversity and Accessibility within Classrooms

• Restorative Justice

• Trauma-Informed Practices: Why and How

• Identity within Equity Strategic Planning

• Imagining Gender Inclusive Schools Training and Resource Handbook: Key Data, Youth Needs, Misconceptions, Student Rights, Practical Pedagogical Shifts, Policy Highlights, Further Reading, Intersectional Identities and Issues, FAQ, Strategic Plans

• Supported youth led actions about climate justice, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19 safety, immigration, gun violence, and LGBTQIA2S+ pride

• Large scale event planning co-planner for the Portland Trans Pride March and Resource Fair, featuring over 2,000 participants (2016-2017)

• Trained in and skilled at de-escalation (adults and children), including cultural nuances, neurodiversity, and mental health awareness

• Mentored youth (ages 9 through 22) with a focus on family involvement

• Health Ed for Every Kid (2024): Kindergarten through 8th grade inclusive health education curriculum. Includes lessons about body science, gender diversity, an introduction to LGBTQIA2S+ identities, and navigating puberty for ages 9 and up. All lessons are developmentally appropriate, accessible, and also serve as handy guides for adults to reimagine inclusive health education.

• Navigating Puberty As a Trans, Nonbinary, and/or Gender Diverse Teen (2017): Workshop lesson and presentation featured at a Portland Queer and Trans Youth Summit for Middle and High School learners.

• Identity and Power: Taught at a place-based, environmental an social justice public school where curriculum creativity was celebrated. Wrote units with a focus on using critical thinking to deconstruct who writes histories, why, and whose voices are often left out. Ethnicity, race, class, disability and neurodivergence, religion, sexuality, gender, family structure, language, immigration “status” and connections to place, and family culture

• Recipient of the Oregon Safe Schools and Communities Coalition (OSSCC) Adult Ally Award (2019), “in recognition of leadership at the forefront of addressing bullying and harassment in Oregon Schools”

• Featured Written Narrative Work at Cancer Con (Denver, Colorado, 2015): Navigating intersections of identity within cancer treatment

• Panelist at the Lewis & Clark College Gender Studies Symposium (2011)