Where do you work?
I’m a grant writer and development contractor, which means I help research, write and apply to grants to win funding for different organizations.

How long have you been involved with Women Unite!?
I just started with Women Unite! in February 2024. I joined Women Unite!, because I’m interested in doing work that matters. As a playwright and a filmmaker, I often wonder if that work is helpful to the greater world, so writing and working on grants with Women Unite! offers me the chance to work with a great team and with fantastic organizations and to use my writing skills to help make a difference.

What do you like most about Women Unite!?
It’s a great organization to work with, the team cares about each other as people, as well as cares about the people and organizations they’re working with and helping succeed. If you’re going to work from home, it’s nice to feel like you’re still part of a great team!

What’s an issue you care deeply about? Why?
I was raised to think about global warming at a very early age. That interest streamed into my work and my research. Growing up on the Connecticut coast, I was raised to know that the water was always edging closer and in the future the coast would be gone. It was always a slow process. Class structure divides the effects of the climate crisis between the present and the future. Although the coast I grew up on will shrink, Western Chicago already has its brownfields left by the mills, the plastic is already littering the beaches of Hawaii, the lack of clean water in Flint, Michigan has been a problem for years—it comes down to financial structure. It comes down to wealth and lack thereof. The climate crisis is an environmental issue, but the injustice of it is a social issue.

What’s a hobby you have? 
Reading plays, screenplays, and books.

What gives you hope? 
Biodynamic farming gives me a lot of hope for our planet and wonderful friends and people I meet give me hope for the world.

What are 2–3 ways you’ve been getting through the fall of late-stage capitalism?
Pestering my pet guinea pig while he’s trying to sleep. Going swimming in the lake (summer time specific). Deep diving into actors’ filmography (currently watching everything Jodie Foster’s been in and directed).

Fun/random fact you want to share?
My dad and I went on a 7-day, 100-mile hike after I graduated college and by mile 60 I had damaged the nerves in my toes.

What’s one of your favorite local businesses?
Common Cup, a local coffee shop in Roger’s Park [Chicago] that I go to at least twice a week!