Where I Call Home:
Minneapolis has been my home for 10years now!
Areas I’m Hoping to Grow:
Coalition building, collaborative research, mixed methods research
Values That Shape My Work:
I value community insights and expertise as a way of creating more just planning practices. My work has always been either steered directly by or in collaboration with community members/organizations. I value the relationships that we form through the research process and how that depends on the mutual exchange of ideas, skills, and knowledge. I hope my/our work will facilitate community members to connect with me/us/each other, and with academic institutions. In doing so, I feel that we can build our own capacity and the capacity of people in the community to organize for their/our own well-being and self-determination. This involves moving resources, financial, social, and informational, into the community from the university. It means using my/our skills and expertise to reveal barriers to community self-determination. It also means to nourish and give precedence to the skills and expertise in community for future organizing work.
A Meaningful Meal or Tradition:
It’s a homemade pizza night with friends and family (some close people you know well and some new people you don’t know or don’t know as well). Everyone brings their own ingredients and makes a pizza to share with everyone.