I live in Washington, DC with my husband and our 13-year-old Welsh terrier. Our children are 21 and 24.

I am the Founder and Executive Director of Negotiation Works. We offer negotiation skills training courses for people experiencing homelessness, living in domestic violence shelters, and returning to the community from prison. I also serve as a mediator in court-connected cases through the DC Superior Court’s Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division, and I previously taught negotiation and mediation as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law. I received my JD at Harvard Law School.

I am interested in empowering individuals in marginalized communities with negotiation and problem-solving tools they can use to resolve everyday conflicts and become more effective self-advocates. I am particularly interested in reentry work and the work of Violence Interrupters.

I enjoy spending time with my family, taking long walks, and baking anything with chocolate.