About

I am a writer, scholar, and practitioner working at the intersection of leadership, meaning, and hemispheric coherence.

For over three decades, my work has focused on how institutions misread people, how meaning collapses under systems not built to hold relational intelligence, and how communities continue creating coherence despite those conditions. I have worked across philanthropy, education, nonprofit systems, public health, criminal justice, and grassroots organizing—often in moments of rupture, conflict, or institutional failure.

My work is grounded in lived experience across the Americas and shaped by long-standing engagement with Indigenous and African continuity, relational ethics, and poetic practice. I do not work within restoration or transformation frames. I am concerned with coherence: how it is thinned, how it is misinterpreted, and how it is actively created when systems cannot see it.

Current Work

I am the founder of Moon Jaguar Strategies and For A Loving Future, where I develop and apply Poetic Futurism: a conceptual and practical framework that addresses meaning collapse across institutions and offers a different architecture for leadership, governance, philanthropy, and collective life.

Poetic Futurism is not a metaphor. It is a diagnostic and generative framework that names:

• How historical impositions reorganized meaning across the hemisphere

• Why institutions repeatedly misinterpret communities, families, and leaders

• How coherence survives outside institutional legibility

• What responsibility looks like when systems can no longer orient themselves

My work includes strategy advising, leadership education, writing, facilitation, and long-form intellectual development. I work with individuals, organizations, and networks who are navigating complexity without reliable maps.

Writing & Scholarship

I am the author of multiple books, essays, and poetic works that span leadership theory, community organizing, governance, love politics, and future architecture.

My writing blends analytic rigor with poetic clarity. It is shaped by scholarship, field practice, and personal history, and it is addressed to readers who are tired of abstraction without accountability.

My work has been used by organizers, philanthropists, educators, and leaders seeking language that does not flatten experience or outsource responsibility.

Academic Background

I hold a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, an MFA in Poetry, and a BA from Middlebury College. My academic work has engaged Indigenous research methodologies, feminist theory, narrative ethics, and the limits of institutional knowledge production.

I no longer orient my work around academic validation, but my scholarship continues to inform how I analyze power, lineage, and meaning across systems.

How I Work

I work slowly, relationally, and with precision.

I do not offer frameworks for consumption or belonging. I work with people who are willing to sit with complexity, responsibility, and long timelines. My practice is shaped by attention to language, structure, and the emotional architectures that govern collective life.

Much of my work happens quietly and in trust. Some of it appears in public writing, books, and teaching.