Em is a faculty member (MEd) for the Co-Active Training Institute's Coach Training and Leadership programs, a facilitator and leadership coach for the Roundtable Institute, as well as a Co-Active coach (PCC, CPCC), and a therapist (MSW, LCSW) for Philadelphia’s LGBTQ+ communities.

Like many of you, I have come to my career via a multiplicity of pathways.

• I come to this work from clinical reproductive health care, having one-on-one conversations with people about the most vulnerable topics and helping them navigate issues of agency, choice, and consent.

• I come to this work from the path of outdoor adventure programs, working with teens and young adults, witnessing challenge and adventure foster profound growth.

• I come from political organizing, talking to strangers on the streets and doorsteps about issues that matter and finding ways to get our communities informed and engaged.

• I come to this work by way of sex education for teens and adults, exploring the intersections between facts and values, practical learning and self-reflection.

• And so on.

All of these paths have intersected and woven together to bring me here, as a coach, a therapist, an educator, and just a dang human.

Here’s what matters: I am an unapologetic stand for people knowing and growing themselves (and their world) in all of their mess, their brilliance, and their complexity. I believe that honesty and transparency, no matter how difficult, must be ground zero for change. And I’m an advocate for growth via the discomfort of exploration and experimentation.