For a decade I have spoken, facilitated, and advised across universities, theaters, health systems, corporations, veteran spaces, and community rooms — wherever people are trying to communicate across difference without losing sight of one another.
This work draws on lived experience and on years of storytelling, restorative practice, and inclusion work. It now moves toward Human-Centered Communication as a broader lens for the same question: how do we stay human to one another while we disagree, change, and restore?
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Education, Public Conversation & Community
University lectures, panels, veteran spaces, screenings, and public conversations — often built around storytelling, gender, and belonging.
2021
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Early Modern Trans Studies — guest lecture & performance
Shakespeare Series & Gender — in conversation with Em Weinstein
2017–21
VA Health Trans-posium
Annual panel for mental-health professionals, as a Gulf War veteran
2022
Downtown Music Holdings
Pride guest speaker — Hero Mars & gender expansiveness
2017
Heidelberg University, Germany
Guest lecture — Hero Mars, race, sex & accountability
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Workplace & Organizational Facilitation
Inclusion work, restorative-practice circles, and facilitated conversations that help companies release, reset, and re-engage.
A restorative-practice facilitation — listen, respond, renew.
2017–20
Racy Conversations: How to Be an Ally
DEI team-building workshops & breakout facilitation, tech industry
2015–
Schools, health organizations & corporations
Inclusion, equity & understanding for LGBTQ+ and minority communities
Featured · Veteran Advocacy
Disability Rights California — Veteran Panelist
A public panel on veterans’ access to healthcare, navigation of VA systems, and the responsibility institutions have to serve the people who depend on them — including transgender veterans seeking gender-affirming care.
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Theatre & Cultural Advisory Work
Gender-inclusion workshops, restorative-practice facilitation, casting-sensitivity consultation, and company conversations across Broadway and regional productions.
Jagged Little Pill·Hairspray·Little Shop of Horrors·Titanique·We Are the Constitution·As You Like It·Transparent: The Musical
A restorative-practice facilitation — listen, respond, renew.
