Hey. I’m Root.

I’m a white, queer, nonbinary, and chronically ill Integral coach living on the stolen ancestral lands of the Cedarville Band of the Piscataway Indians (known today as Baltimore, MD). 

I’ve organized for racial, environmental, and climate justice for over 10 years. Over that time, I was a part of a multi-racial, multi-lingual, and multi-identity community organization that centered queer and trans leadership. We organized to stop a new jail, supported undocumented folks who were being detained and deported, but we also built a political home where we could be ourselves in our multi-faceted, complex identities. What we all had in common was a love for where we lived and a longing for dignity, connection, and belonging. Our full humanity. I longed for belonging so hard that I made myself exhausted and very sick balancing multiple jobs with organizing. 

I gave myself the nickname “Root” in 2011 during a time when I felt everything but ‘rooted’ in my life and in myself.

It has been a north star for me over the last 13 years. I hadn’t fully felt what I thought ‘Root’ would feel like until I left my first marriage in 2021 and I’ve felt ‘Root’ in me ever since. Now, I can’t imagine feeling any other way than rooted, grounded, centered. It's amazing after a lifetime of feeling literally the opposite. 


I’ve found myself at some tough points in my life – times where I felt hopeless, alone, scared, small, and unworthy. I’ve been through career change, divorce, depression, crippling anxiety, friend breakups, moving to a new city, and trying to create a business that sustains me and is in line with my values. I’ve been coached, I’ve gone to therapy, read countless books, listened to all the self-help podcasts on my commutes and travels, journaled and journaled, asked for guidance from friends (thank you, you know who you are).

I never did the work alone and you shouldn’t have to either.

Something happened to me in the lowest of low moments in life – I found myself, I became my own best friend, the person that younger me could count on to take care of things, and I discovered what Pema Chödrön says, “only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us”. 

This being annihilated over and over has really allowed me to step into being an indestructible changemaker. What I mean is that I can take risks not only for myself and my life but for those who experience far more oppression and harm than I do. I trust myself to navigate whatever life brings me, knowing I will be okay and I’ll do the best I can to value the dignity of all involved. I set boundaries and speak my truth so I can stay true to who I am and I honor that in others. I can also forgive myself for all the mistakes I’ve made, all the times when I wasn’t able to do all of this and know that I’ll be making mistakes moving forward and feel comfortable taking responsibility and accountability when that happens. I believe that we can all be this way with ourselves, with each other, and that this way of being will change the world. 

More than ever, we are in need of a world full of indestructible queer and trans changemakers who are steeped in their own power, who stand up for our (and others) collective dignity and right to exist, and are healing to liberate themselves and our society. And I’m committed to doing my part to create the world that we deserve through coaching. 

AND!, and, I’m a gardening, biking, and hiking queer. I love video games, my fiancé, my cat, my people, my family, and my bikes (road and mountain). I read fantasy novels in my spare time. Feed me amazing tacos and I will do whatever you want. Foraging is my newest way to connect with the land and the land is one of my closest friends. I listen to podcasts and spy novel audiobooks when I ride my bike. I’ve watched almost every season of Survivor. Me and my partner escape winter each year and work remotely from Costa Rica. I have a very long travel list. I dream about living in a queer commune. I grew up in the middle of the woods along a small stream. I feel most at home in the mountains of the Shenandoah Valley. I love my life and the people who are in it with me.

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