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Growing more capable and more alive in community is my obsession.
I love bringing people together to connect, exchange, and grow our collective power — especially when music, food and nerdy conversations are involved.
I write about all these topics (and more) on my personal newsletter, 💌 joycast 💌.
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I consider myself an artist, whose media are (for example) interpersonal ways of relating, relational infrastructures and procedures. Put simply: the art of bringing people together to do cool things that help us all get free.
I’m interested in dreaming new realities and practicing utopias with others who believe ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE.
My work right now (2025) is inspired especially by these ideas:
My intention: I want to work together with folks to build something better for all of us. I am committed to cultivating joy in our movements, by helping folks collaborate with more care and compassion as we move together towards liberation.
Key values I hold myself accountable to:
As a holder of many spaces, I strive to foster braver space that operate with these mindsets.
I can’t promise that I will always get it right, but I can promise to do my very best to keep my ears and heart open, to listen actively to those I hold space for and with, to be accountable when sh*t goes wrong, and to continuously seek for more ways to share the power and privilege I have access to, sustainably and responsibly.
I am guided by my commitment to these ethics and mindsets.
Liberation for all
”No one of us can be free until everybody is free.” - Maya Angelou. I believe in the power of collective action and coalition-building to shifts norms and change worlds, and reject the neoliberal notion that “a rising tide lifts all boats”.
Transformative justice
We are born into oppressive systems that we do not want to recreate through our work for social change, so we use design to reshape our systems to influence behaviors of ourselves, those we work with, and those we stand in solidarity with. We look for systemic and collective solutions for systemic issues, working to see how we can address roots of issues rather than only depend on individual players to be the change they want to see. We cultivate hope through our commitments to each other, by coming back to the table together, again and again.
Joyful militancy
Joy, as in becoming more capable together. I reject the rigid radicalism that divides our movements, and instead embrace joyful militancy and all the emergence it requires. Joy here is adopted in the Spinozan sense, of becoming ever more capable of feeling and doing something new, together, and militancy as in “a fierce conviction in which struggle and care, fierceness and tenderness, go hand-in-hand” (bergman, Montgomery).
Solidarity not charity