About

I came to this work through life, before language ever caught up. My story includes deep attachment, loss, responsibility, and long seasons of learning how to stay present when things felt unresolved. I learned early that love and pain often travel together, and that meaning is shaped through how we carry what life gives us. I grew up alongside my mother, in a relationship that held tenderness, tension, devotion, and endurance. We were deeply bonded from my first breath to her last. Through her life, I learned about suffering, sacrifice, surrender, and serenity often woven together in quiet ways, sometimes expressed loudly, often lived honestly. Our relationship shaped me profoundly. I see her clearly now and I know how deeply I was loved, that knowing continued to guide how I meet others. Along the way I also experienced the loss of people I loved deeply, including those who knew me across many seasons of life. Losing them and later choosing distance from relationships that I could no longer hold mutual clarity, taught me something essential grief is not limited to death. It also lives in separation, transition, and the quiet acceptance that some bonds change shape. These experiences sharpened my understanding of discernment, boundaries, and love that remains without self a racial erasure. These paths shaped my capacity to sit with complexity without rushing to resolve it or turn away from it.