About Me

Before I ever called myself a facilitator, it was just how I moved through the world. Inviting my friends to reply to an icebreaker or prompt at brunch. Listening to my Uber driver tell me about their kids. Telling a quick joke to a colleague right before the meeting starts. I’d talk to people, ask about their stories, create a little moment of connection — and I could feel a bit more ease arrive. I didn’t have a name for it back then, but now I understand that this way of connecting is a gift. And it’s become the theme of my life’s work.

I’ve built this way of being brick by brick 💪🏾

🧱 The almost two decades in educational and nonprofit spaces — designing training programs, strengthening operational systems, supporting strategy, and helping organizations move toward clarity, equity, and excellence.

🧱 The 10 years I’ve spent in the world of storytelling — coaching storytellers, teaching story structure, attending story slams, and sometimes even being a host or judge.

Then there are the materials, mediums, and lineages that shape me.

📚 The writers and thinkers who form my intellectual ancestry — especially the Black feminist traditions and Caribbean literature I return to again and again.

🧵 The needlework tradition I learned from my grandmother and continue to study through embroidery and textile coursework at my local community college.

🌱 Years of personal work with meditation, focusing, plant alchemy that lead to a certification in mindfulness.

The home I’ve built with these bricks is Circles & Letters. This is the indie practice I formally registered in 2022, after years of consulting and facilitating alongside my main roles. Creating this practice gave that collective work a home — a space to stretch, experiment, and design approaches that feel true to how I want to work with people.

A place where I can bring my nonprofit experience, my understanding of story and narrative, and the whimsy and insight from my life. A place where it all informs the design of the workshops, retreats, and other facilitated experiences that I offer my clients.

Inspired by Toni Cade Bambara, I hold close the idea that the role of the facilitator is to make collaboration irresistible. I know how much we need one another, and I want to help build the kinds of spaces where that truth feels possible.

If you’re looking for a facilitator, community educator, or creative partner — someone who brings depth, warmth, strategy, and joy — I’d love to connect.

Please say hello.