As a professional, I am the Founder and Principal at Ripple Peace Research & Consulting LLC, which provides program design, program evaluation and practical research services to organizations working to improve intergroup relations across cultural, religious, racial, ethnic and other lines of difference. For more on that work and access to my publications, check out the Ripple website.
At the personal level, there’s more to the story. As a recovering global nomad, this periodic blog helps me to process the messy, ongoing journey of coming “home” to the USA. Having spent much of my adult life in other places – including México, Kosovo, the Philippines and Singapore – my identity has become global. I adapt easily to almost any culture but I never feel fully at home. This includes the USA, where my return has brought a profound personal reckoning with the injustice and “unpeace” found in this country, and a re-commitment to work toward a better future.
This blog also reflects a smattering of my other personal identities: A progressive christian with an enduring interfaith habit and a growing eco-spiritual bent. A wife and step-mom. A water sports fanatic. A person who knows the grind of non-visible disability and chronic health problems. An off-the-charts introvert. An obsessive writer. A girl who’d like to add poetry to her repertoire but never finds the time.
If any of that resonates, feel free to contact me. Tell me something about yourself…whether professional or personal!