She loves sunsets and moonrises Soft waves and cheesy love letters Old fashions and light breezes She loves nuanced colors in nature and bright colors in the canvas. She loves bright red clothes and lips And soft blue toned skies She loves light soft kisses and graceful caresses Profound introspection…

I’m doing a 100-day blog challenge, writing daily. I don’t post all the articles on Medium. If you’re interested in the daily update, you can sign-up here: sign up for the new blog. The trauma healing work of last week had me struggling to stay in my body. Breathe. Feel…

I’m noticing some tendencies in white progressive spaces, of people believing they are performing “allyship” by stepping back, not taking up space, and judging any white person who doesn’t do the same. As an a bilingual person who has lived half of my life in Italy, and the other half…

Baldwin said: “White people don’t deal with god — God is a metaphor for purity and safety.” Baldwin. The elders of color I know remind me regularly how as white people, we’ve played with being God and lost our way. …

The past two years have been quite a journey. It’s been two years of things going systematically sour — my life going in the absolute opposite direction than I wanted it to. Someone told me yesterday: “Things have to go badly to learn surrender, because as long as everything goes…

Home For Good Coalition White Paper 1, Part 2 — The Foundation: The Recipe of System Abuse. While multiple systems like child welfare, juvenile justice, child welfare, education, child care, housing, and welfare claim to support the needs of children, outcomes are often disappointing. Many children end up in foster care for the lack of adequate housing and child care. Among children who age out of foster…

Home For Good Coalition White Paper 1, Part I — Nothing we see in our current pandemic is new. This crisis has simply brought to the surface the mechanisms our systems have had since their inception. We won’t indulge in historical context here, but it’s not hard to access. …

I’m a program evaluator. I’m the one who assesses whether programs actually met their goals and if they haven’t, why not. I’m also the one that makes suggestions to do better from year to year. In 2015, I was hired by Equal Justice USA (EJUSA), an advocacy non-profit that envisions…

For the past 20 years I’ve been trying to find my way through a minefield of good intentions, hurt feelings, and historical wounds, both my own and everyone else’s doing “race work.” I haven’t had any mentors for any long stretch of the way, just moment-by-moment advisors who, in retrospect…