To help people find and fearlessly move into the power of their unique story.

The Mission

My mission is to help people find and fearlessly move into the power of their unique story.

I believe people are formed by the stories they inherit, the experiences they endure, and the environments they are invited into. Too often, those stories are constrained by fear, isolation, or systems that deny dignity. My work is about creating the conditions where people can name their story honestly, take responsibility for it, and step into it with courage.

This mission is not theoretical. It is lived.

I practice it through four interconnected areas of my life and work: Family, Relationship, Community, and Civic Innovation. Each represents a different scale at which story is formed and exercised, from the most intimate to the most systemic.

What follows is how that mission takes shape in practice.

Family

Family is the first place where my mission is practiced.

I understand family not as a backdrop to my work, but as a primary site of formation. It is where love is tested, responsibility is learned, and story is shaped through daily life. Together, we seek to steward our marriage, parenting, and shared rhythms with intention, believing that the best things in the world express both form and function.

Through art, education, faith, and service, our family works to help others access hope and the power of their stories. Locally and beyond, we engage in creative and educational work with children and adults in underserved communities. Our desire is simple: that our life together would reflect care, courage, and love wherever we are called to serve.

Relationship

Relationship is the foundation that makes all other work possible.

Across every context, I have seen that durable change begins not with programs or strategies, but with trust. Relationship creates the conditions for honesty, risk, learning, and repair. Without it, systems fracture and people retreat.

My work consistently centers on cultivating environments where people are treated as humans rather than transactions, where proximity matters, and where mutual responsibility is practiced. Relationship is the medium through which story is revealed, strengthened, and sustained.

Community

Community is where individual stories are held, tested, and refined together.

Through stewarding shared spaces and communal environments, I work to create the conditions for belonging, contribution, and growth. When community is designed with care, people are seen, supported, and encouraged to take meaningful steps forward in their lives and work.

This expression of my mission focuses on shaping environments, physical and relational, that foster trust, shared life, and the courage to begin.

Civic Innovation

Civic innovation is how my mission engages systems.

Through civic innovation work, I help communities move from conviction to practice by sourcing promising ideas, building them into viable solutions, testing them in real-world conditions, and scaling what proves effective. This work recognizes that stories do not exist in isolation. They are shaped by policies, institutions, and systems that either expand or constrain possibility.

By stewarding civic platforms rooted in relationship and accountability to place, I work alongside entrepreneurs, residents, and institutions to address complex challenges in ways that honor lived experience and shared responsibility.