Vision

I desire to connect with persons and organizations to design creative solutions in global and local health, education, law, and politics, or the public commons, to build healthy societies. I seek to live a vocational, strategic, and compassionate faith.

Tagline

Connecting & Consulting with
People & Organizations to
Write, Communicate & Lead for
Health, Education & the Public Commons

Mission

Refine and apply writing, communication consulting, and research in narrative, medical anthropology, and techno-cultural studies
Produce writing, arts-based and social research, editorial, detail, location, and event photography, social media, and community profiles
Innovate and chair graduate programs
Develop narrative health and design technology and inquiry approaches to make health communication more effective, just, and sustainable
Foster beneficial partnerships between faith and community
Emphasize social justice via dialogue and confirmation
Encourage congruence in vocation and faith
Lead with a gifts-based and holistic approach
Consult civic leaders, organizations, and learners with what I learn in vocational development, communication, and organizational leadership
Write and publish books

Perspective

I view the world as interconnected where each person's life influences another's. I base this social identity on my faith, which supports and encourages me to live my life with the end and in-between in mind.

I desire to encourage each person and organization with whom I interact. This supportive leadership benefits organizations that want to craft and pursue a shared vision and mission wherein each team member participates and contributes.

Vocation

Vocation calls me to grow mind, body, and soul and to share gifts for a lasting social purpose (see 1 Timothy 4.14-16). Vocation informs my decisions to write, photograph, communicate, research, network, and lead. Though I view myself as a deeply spiritual person, I strive to show respect and confirm others. I generate rapport with people through dialogue, empathetic understanding, and a spirit of friendship.

Recreation

I enjoy reading, writing, watching classic movies, tea dates and dinners with friends, roadtrips with my husband, photographing people, places, and things, facebooking, microblogging, blogging, social networking, lifelong learning, researching, playing with our niece, drinking a hot cup of loose leaf tea, walking near water, and watching sunrises and sunsets.

Memberships

Editorial Photographers, Society for Applied Anthropology, Western States Communication Association, and Challenging Hate.

For More Information

Peruse About, Write, Photograph, Communicate and Lead, and Research to learn more about my work. Visit my Blog for current events. Access my Resume, Purpose Statement, and Writing Sample. Contact Me if interested in partnering with me in my pursuits.