Pronouns
she/her or they/them
What do you do as a consultant/coach?
I work with organizers and movement-builders broadly around the question of “what do you need from your information systems and technology and how can you get it in a way that is sustainable for people, budget, and process?” In practice, this means projects like:
- Technology needs assessment and recommendations, covering the whole organization or one area of work (for example, file management and collaboration, tracking relationships and engagement, program delivery, project management, internal communications)
- Technology tool evaluation and selection
- Planning for information systems rollout and adoption, including training and change management
- Information security improvement
- Strategic technology planning
- Technology and operations staffing advisement, including recruitment and hiring processes
- Vendor evaluation and selection
- Skill-building and leadership development for technology and operations staff
What is your approach?
Information Ecology brings together social justice values and technical chops; our work is tempered by whole-systems sensibilities, rooted in years of alliance with grassroots and direct action organizations, forged in classrooms and datacenters, and enriched by time spent studying and practicing permaculture design, meditation, and facilitative leadership.
We believe that when it comes to organizational technology, it’s not the tools that matter most to success. Instead, it’s about everything that surrounds the tech: clarity on the outcomes you need, thoughtful design and documentation of the processes that your tools support, adequate time in staff workplans for training and practice, buy-in and modeling from leadership, and careful planning and budgeting.
How has your experience/background contributed to your work?
I grew up privileged in New York City and came to feminism early on at my private high school, where all the girls were on diets and our male peers talked openly about how we really didn’t understand the math and science classes we were in alongside them. When I got to college, my commitment to feminism deepened and led me to a more holistic understanding of social justice, as well as an examination of my own race and class privilege. After more than a decade as a feminist writer and editor, I shifted my focus to operations and administrative work for racial and economic justice organizations as a way to contribute most to building the world I want to live in.
I currently organize with my local chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace.
Sample clients
National Network of Abortion Funds, 9to5, Power California, Queer Cultural Center, LeadersTrust