Doing scholarship that travels beyond the journal.
I am a PhD student at UMass Boston studying how researchers, organizers, and institutions can do work that actually changes things. This site collects what I’m reading, writing, building, and convening.
I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and now live in Boston. My work sits at the intersection of management research and grassroots organizing — I’ve led national campus advocacy at Truth Initiative, served as Press Secretary for the Hispanic Leadership Coalition of Northeast Indiana, and currently serve as a Senior Fellow with the United Nations’ Higher Education Sustainability Initiative.
I write about what it means to be an impactful scholar, teacher, and practitioner in an era of compounding crises — and I teach the skills, habits, and relationships that make change possible.
Sections
Doctoral work on impact-oriented scholarship, grand challenges, and participatory action research.
University courses, the Changemaker Community certificate, and workshops on crafting lessons that last.
Policy and organizing across public health, climate justice, food and farm policy, and education equity.
Tools, platforms, and technical practices I use across research, teaching, and advocacy.
Currently
Writing a three-paper dissertation on impact-oriented scholarship in management and organization studies, with Dr. Pacey Foster. Convening the Impact Lab — a student-led participatory research collective — and preparing papers for AOM, EGOS, and MOBTS.