Aug 1, 2022Grief is the TeacherA poem on grief — On August 1, 2021, my teacher Guru Jagat passed away unexpectedly at the age of 41. Of her many, many parting gifts to me, was this poem which came through me a few days after her passing, while sitting in the lobby of the Ra Ma Institute in Venice, California. Grief is the Teacher …Grief3 min readGrief3 min read
Dec 18, 2020Three Ways that Child Welfare is Failing Older Foster YouthToday, Think Of Us is publishing Aged Out: How We’re Failing Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care. This reflects work we’ve done over the past year to understand how the child welfare system is failing youth aging out of foster care. Across the country, far too many young people age…Foster Care10 min readFoster Care10 min read
Feb 16, 2020On Learning From ExperienceThis is a post about how I recruited a team of health practitioners to work with who not only were excellent professionals, but also had personal experience overcoming illness. It is painfully obvious to me that not all people who share this preference will have the access to care that…Healing6 min readHealing6 min read
Jan 10, 2020Why Are We So Sick?Reflections on the state of health of my community. Originally posted on October 4, 2019. — Last spring, I took a big, firm step out of the world of illness and into the world of wellness. Very much to my surprise, this transition — which I had prayed and worked and dreamed for — was extremely unpleasant. I am still processing how such a miracle felt…Health12 min readHealth12 min read
Oct 15, 2019When It’s Not a MetaphorReflections on being lost. And being found. Originally posted on August 8, 2019. — I’m sharing more about my health journey — not so much to help with my own healing, though I’m sure it will do that! But because so very many of us are sick. As I get more and more on the other side myself, I realize it does no one…Chronic Illness6 min readChronic Illness6 min read
Oct 11, 2019If I Could Share Only One ThingReflections on the perspective that saved my life. Originally posted on May 25, 2019. — There is something I want to tell you. Finding a way to write about it has been really challenging. Though not nearly as hard as the actual thing: For the last 5 years, I’ve struggled through impossible chronic illness. Chronic illness has been an experience so formative that language fails…Health6 min readHealth6 min read
Published inNDP Annotations·Dec 6, 2018This is What Winning Looks LikeHow a small team touched every congressional election in the country. — Since its founding in 2017, The New Data Project has been experimenting to find the best way to increase voter turnout. VoteWithMe — our relational voter turnout app — was, by far, the most effective tool we found. So, we dedicated every resource we had to getting VoteWithMe into as…Politics5 min readPolitics5 min read
Published inNDP Annotations·May 29, 2018Technology for Persistent DemocracyIn 2016, we learned the hard way that many of our assumptions were wrong — dangerously wrong. And we wanted to help, fast. Committed to reexamining what we thought we knew, the New Data Project was born. When we started up, we drew inspiration…Politics3 min readPolitics3 min read
