About Me

For over 17 years I have worked with campaign staff, organizers, advocates and legislative staff to promote racial and economic justice and a true, multiracial democracy. 

After earning my bachelor’s degree in philosophy at the University of Southern California and a J.D. with a concentration in corporate law from Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School, I began working as an opposition researcher. As a consultant supporting state and federal campaigns, I led a team of colleagues in the research and drafting of exhaustive reports on the political positions, weaknesses, and strengths of candidates.

After the 2010 election, looking for projects with a greater focus on policy advocacy and base building, I joined the labor movement as a strategic researcher for 1199SEIU. At 1199, I worked side by side with organizers running corporate campaigns, providing them with detailed analyses to support their work while also joining them on the doors to talk directly to workers about the importance of union membership. 

Since leaving 1199 in 2016, I have been working with community based organizations, providing strategic research, policy analysis, and campaign planning support for both state and federal advocacy. 

Throughout my career, I have been inspired by those who came before me and made my life possible, from powerful leaders like Fannie Lou Hamer and Shirley Chisolm to my grandmother, Leola Frost, who grew up as a subsistence farmer in rural Georgia before moving north to raise a family in New York City.

It is a testament to the power of the movements of the last century that, within two generations of sharecroppers and subsistence farmers, I was able to graduate from law school. 

It is impossible for me to repay the hard work, sacrifices, and boundless love that I received from my grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts and cousins over the years. But I hope that the work I do in building a better world for my own nieces and nephews is enough to make them proud.