I collect things. Sticks, stones, feathers, and moss, love and grief, and encounters. But mostly, I collect stories that are less often heard. They are the stories at the edges, the voices left out of history or the news cycle, stories from the landscape and the humans that tend it.

I'm an anthropologist, which is mostly a long word for someone who listens for those stories and then tells them back out to the world, in the hope that enough of them will change our minds about who we are on this planet.

I seek out beauty almost everywhere, and audibly gasp when I inevitably find it. (I gasp a lot.) The sound of a swan's wings over water makes me cry. I count landscapes and rivers and whole ecologies as persons. I want to listen while the wolves tell me the story of their existence. And I believe disabled grandmothers of color should lead the world.

On paper, I have an MA in Anthropology and Social Change, years of doctoral research, and a year in Quaker seminary. For a long time, I believed the interconnected way I saw the world was a flaw. So much detail, nuance, and sensitivity to what lies beneath. It took me a lifetime to trust that this way of seeing was valuable, and as my granddaughter would say, my magic power.

My work arises from the ecotones, those blended edges where one thing meets another. Where ecology meets grief, the human meets the more-than-human, and systems run up against the sacred.

It all circles a series of questions:

• Who is allowed to count as a person?

• Whose story was left untold?

• And what do those omissions mean about the way we are living on the planet together?

These questions ask me to tend what's overlooked, notice what's at risk of being lost, and tell the stories of the Earth as I understand them. This website is where I keep the field notes. If any of it resonates with your work, your thinking, or your own listening, I'd love to talk.

The women who have no idea they raised me:

Donna Haraway · Anna Tsing · Silvia Federici · Maria Mies · Kate Manne · Hannah Arendt · Anne Sexton · bell hooks · Joanna Macy · Gerda Lerner · Jocelyn Bell Burnell · Starhawk · Naomi Klein · Carol P. Christ · Riane Eisler · Nancy Scheper-Hughes · Robin Wall Kimmerer · Sara Ahmed · Ursula K. Le Guin · Terry Tempest Williams · Mary Oliver · Susan Sontag · Octavia Butler · adrienne maree brown · Clarissa Pinkola Estés · Diane Boyd · Rachel Carson · Maria Puig de la Bellacassa · Carol Collins (my mom).