I move words like fingers move crochet thread. Loop, hook, pull. Tension and slack, creating something new, useful—and beautiful—from simple string.

After twenty years working for national immigration advocacy organizations, I launched a communications consulting practice, Anacaona. We help our clients tell stories that compel people to see and feel our shared humanity, and act to make social change.

Anacaona specializes in advocacy communications strategy and planning; editing and writing; coaching and training in writing, media relations, and narrative. I also direct the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, and serve on the boards of Justice Action Center and Babel Box Theatre—claiming my progressive values, midwestern roots, and the power of art as pleasure, connector, and teacher.

My work has appeared in publications as diverse as the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Univision, Guardian, Columbus Dispatch, and Ideastream Public Media. I am a 2018 Marshall Memorial Fellow with the German Marshall Fund.