I’m a team-weaver working as a researcher, teacher, and designer and co-building immersive (off- and online) developmental spaces that promote flourishing. After 20 years as a developmental psychologist in academia, I left the ivory tower to accelerate and amplify the real-world impact of our scientific work and directly improve the lives of young people. I’m also a mother of twin boys that have just hit adulthood. I’m writing a book that combines developmental psychology, pragmatic philosophy, Indigenous wisdom traditions, and feminist care ethics to help parents re-imagine and reinvigorate relationships with their adult “children.” I’m thinking a lot about how we shift our roles as individual caretakers to community mentors and elders who serve the next generation of young adults.

I belong to several glorious creative collectives: 1. Liminal Learning, a comprehensive world-readiness program that prepares young people (ages ~18–24 years) to thrive in an unpredictable world in flux; 2. Coralus, a community of change-makers activating cross-sector global transformations through radical generosity; 3. GEMH (Games for Emotional and Mental Health) Lab, an R&D collective of scientists, designers, and artists focused on tech for flourishing; and 4. Bloom, a group of earnest generalists who met at the start of the pandemic and happened upon an alchemy fed by friendship, art, the love of learning, & lots of play.