An Introduction
I'm a writer, editor, podcaster, and activist living in Austin, Texas with my husband, one unusually small cat, and an eminently goofy hound dog. I mostly write about Texas, politics, and reproductive justice, and I often engage in strategic communications work around sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. This website exists because maybe you'd like to hire me to write, edit, or produce a thing for you, and you're interested in hearing what I'm about. I am deeply biased in favor of abortion rights and access, and I like it that way. From 2018-2021, I led the communications team at If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice , a legal organization at the vanguard of the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements. Because writing is a non-stop hustle and I've never been happy doing one thing at a time anyway, I've been freelancing for nearly 20 years, even while working a slate of full-time journalism (and very not-journalism) gigs. My