Mapping From Self to System
I begin each blog in my practice. I pay attention to my body and positionality, my relationships, and the institutions I move through, and bring that attention to the practitioners, systems, and communities I work alongside. I call this method contemplative mapping and I apply it here in practice, preparation, and policy.
The Data That Waited: What 272 Teachers Taught Me About Invisible Networks
What 272 teachers taught me about invisible infrastructure
Designing With, Not For: What Becomes Visible From Liminal Spaces
Liminal spaces—those thresholds where you never quite belong—aren't just places of struggle. They're sites of insight that reveal what institutions miss when they only measure what's familiar.
What becomes possible when we design with people from liminal spaces rather than for them?
Building Relational Infrastructure: Questions for a Moment of Transition
EI/ECSE faces devastating federal cuts that demand our fierce attention and action. What if we centered relational infrastructure as we work to protect, strengthen, and rebuild?
A Note of Dedication
This practice and website are dedicated to my daughter. She is only four, but she has already been my greatest teacher—showing me in real-time what I've known in my bones but couldn't quite articulate since I was a little one myself.
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