Born 1978 in El Paso, Texas. An organiser, writer, and facilitator who spent years working with the Ruckus Society and the Movement Strategy Center before turning to the question of how movements actually change — not in theory, but in the body.
She was literary executor for Octavia E. Butler and co-edited Octavia's Brood (2015), a collection of visionary fiction by movement writers. Her own Emergent Strategy (2017) reframed organising through the lens of complexity, fractals, and biomimicry — how small, adaptive practices scale into systemic change.
Pleasure Activism (2019) and Holding Change (2021) extended the work. She is one of the most widely read voices in contemporary organising precisely because she treats joy, rest, and attention to relationship as political practices, not luxuries.
Emergent Strategy
Principles of change drawn from nature and complexity science — organising as if the world depends on it.