Good storytelling can inspire action and strengthen community. I advocate for a repaired relationship with nature and kinship with animals, trees and rivers, a reconnection with food, a fierceness for food justice and the protection of wildlife and wild places.

Storytelling in writing, film and visual media, science communication, fiction, creative nonfiction and even children’s stories are some ways I try to inspire and organize action. Most often, I write about nature, food, climate, rewilding, public lands and biodiversity.

I’ve been a senior campaigner for the Center for Biological Diversity for over a decade. My work focuses on the ways food and agriculture affect people, places and wildlife. For the Center, I’ve created projects such as the Food Justice Film Festival, led the Take Extinction Off Your Plate campaign, and written reports on regenerative agriculture, food waste, school meal programs, and how to fight through the weeds of corporate greenwashing, especially about cattle grazing.

For fifteen years I was a university professor, and designed college courses and published on topics as diverse as the politics of food, place-based writing, Irish women’s hunger strikes, under-represented writers, the history of cattle grazing on native peoples and places of the American West, women’s portrayals of motherhood in Irish nationalist short fiction, post-colonial film, gender studies, living with chronic illness. I have also taught literature, rhetoric, critical thinking and composition.

I serve on the Advisory Boards for Freedom Food Alliance and Friends of the Noyo River.

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