About Me

Some of my earliest memories are of taking minutes with crayons during housing co-op meetings. I didn't fully grasp what quorum meant, but I knew control of decision making mattered and that if you wanted something to change, you had to get involved.

I've spent most of my life trying to fix things that feel too broken to ignore. I've been lucky enough to spend the majority of my time in decentralized and cause oriented work. From co-ops to climate justice campaign, facilitating grant programs and dedicating myself to supporting Indigenous sovereignty, the central thread is rewiring broken systems, that's why that's the title of my blog.

I've been in political party leadership, I've been a campaigner, a comms director, and a strategist for public interest groups of all shapes and size. I've helped distribute millions in funding for climate solutions and digital infrastructure, and feel so privileged to have the opportunity to have been of service to many communities, especially Indigenous communities across Canada that have had a profound impact on my life.

I facilitate most of my work these days through Elephant Room Campaigns and Communications along with my good friend and long time collaborator Tarah. This org evolved out of the Great Climate Race, which was a running event series, and peer-to-peer crowdfunding application we built to facilitate it, which started way back in 2015. It was an awareness raising campaign team that who built tech to accomplish its goals that blossomed into a boutique agency focused on tools and techniques for making change for the better.

I care a lot about infosec, OSINT, decentralized governance, and the weird ways injustice and unethical concentrations of power effect all of our lives. I believe in memes as weapons of mass deprogramming. I've been called a protocol whisperer after many years of helping communities use tools. I use in laughter as a survival skill.

These days, among other things, I'm writing a weird little book called Mandate: The Monkey Flower Experiment. It's inspired by everyone I've watched building something beautiful in whatt feels more and more like the not-so metaphorical ruins of the modern world. The book could be described as a cypherpunk lord of the flies. It takes place a few years in future at a coastal university campus on a mountainside, cut off from the outside world after a storm. The students and faculty rise up and take over and try to put their utopian ideas into practice. This book has been a labour of love off the side of my desk for many years, after it started as a script for a play in my days as a theatre student, lifetimes ago. Stay tuned for more on this passion project, I will be posting here on this blog.

As a Canadian I am obliged to apologize at least once while you read this, so for whatever reason, sorry about that. Anyways, thanks for dropping by. The best way to connect with me is probably just to reach out on Bluesky or any of my other social accounts.

For a deep dive check out more of the stuff I have done over the years here.