portfolio

Presentations & Trainings

• Creating Gender Inclusive Spaces in Your Library

• Understanding & Countering Anti-Trans Misinformation

• Anti-Trans Bias & the New Federal Paradigm

• Rising to the Challenge: The Trustee's Role in the "Culture Wars"

• Responding to Challenges & Complaints: A Communication Plan

• It's Called Praxis!: How Cis Managers Can Do Better & Why They Should Start Now

• Redefining Safety: How Cisgender Leaders Can Support Transgender Staff

• The Art of Facilitation: Creating Healthy Library Spaces Through Positive Communication & Boundaries

• Tales from the Restricted Section: Book Banning & Censorship in America

Writing & Publications

• Public Libraries (July/August 2023 issue), "Making Your Library a Gender-Inclusive Space"

  • Winner of Public Libraries' 2024 Feature Article Contest

• SpeakOUT Boston blog contributor:

  • Author, "The Power of Visibility"

  • Booklist compiler, "SpeakOUT Honors Holocaust Remembrance Day"

Podcasts

• Conspirituality episode 201, "Librarians Are Not Groomers"

• PLA FYI Podcast episode 85, "Be MediaWise: The Misinformation Resilience Toolkit For Libraries"

Courses & Programs

• Critical Disinformation Studies (8-week series of programs, spring 2022); adapted from the open-source syllabus created by the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at UNC-Chapel Hill

Committees

• Advisor, "Be MediaWise: The Misinformation Resilience Toolkit For Libraries", 2023-2024

• Peggy Barber Tribute Grant committee member, 2024-2026 cycle

• Advisor, Libraries Transforming Communities (LTC): Libraries as Leaders in Bridging Divides, 2025-2026

Organizing & LIS Advocacy

• Mass. Trans-Librarians Group, founder & co-administrator

  • Recipient of the MBLC's 2025 Commissioner Awards' Samuel Swett Green Award

• Library Safety Volunteers, founder & organizer

Awards & Honors

• Reviewed by Jordan Ostrum in "Cultivating Trans Safety Through Cis Literacy" (Public Libraries Online)

• Recipient of a James Patterson 2024 Award Bonus

• 2025 People of Courage Award for Inspiration & Innovation, presented by Open Sky Community Services & Safe Homes MA