Hello
For the past 15 years, I’ve worked in nonprofit leadership across violence prevention, youth development, poverty reduction, and workforce development. Much of my work has centered on building collaborations, identifying leverage points for systems change, and strengthening the trust and leadership that make collective efforts sustainable. The Work Between is a place to reflect on the often unseen work that happens between organizations — and the people who quietly hold it.
My Story
I’ve spent most of my career inside nonprofit organizations—designing programs, navigating funding requirements, and trying to create impact in systems that don’t always talk to each other.
Over time, I’ve become less interested in individual solutions and more interested in the work that sits between us: how we learn together, how we align effort, and how coordination actually happens (or doesn’t).
I often describe Indianapolis as resource rich but systems poor.
I don’t mean that as criticism. I mean it as an observation born from lived experience. There is generosity, expertise, and commitment here—alongside fragmentation, duplicated effort, and quiet frustration.
The Work Between grew out of that tension.
This isn’t a consultancy website in the traditional sense. It’s a place to think in public, to ask better questions, and to explore what working together could look like if we took learning and alignment seriously.
Sometimes that thinking stays on the page. Sometimes it moves into workshops, conversations, or deeper partnership.
I don’t claim to have answers.
What I do have is experience sitting with complexity, noticing patterns across organizations, and helping groups slow down long enough to make meaning together.
I believe that systems change is less about innovation and more about attention—attention to relationships, incentives, and the often-invisible work that holds everything together.
If you find yourself asking similar questions—or sensing that the work you’re doing requires more coordination than the system currently supports—you’re in the right place.