Historically, I have been pleased to support clients in a variety of ways. As of 2025, I am focusing on Information Services and supporting peaceful endings for organizations that are closing.
Teaching, Training, & Speaking
As a librarian by training, I have a keen interest in breaking down complex ideas into understandable language. I am an experienced and enthusiastic speaker, trainer, and teacher on a wide range of topics. Here is a training I’ve given as comprehensive introduction to gender justice, with emphasis on transgender people in the HIV movement.
Community Based Research
While much of my video work is a result of community interviews, sometimes you just need some solid quantitative research to support your advocacy. In 2015 and 2016, while I worked at Transgender Law Center, I co-designed a survey instrument based on a community focus group, supervised data collection, analyzed the data, and wrote up the results for 2 of the 3 resulting reports (“Some Kind of Strength” and “See Us as People“). For these reports, I did the data analysis in R.
Facilitation & Conflict Mediation
I went through my first conflict mediation training in 1994 and have grown my facilitation and mediation skills through thousands of hours of practice since then. You can read more about my approach here.
Film
Since 2015, I have produced and mentored the creation of more than 50 short films. Click the image above to see a recent one, which was commissioned for Visual AIDS’ Day Without Art film screenings in 2018. You can also see a selection of my films on vimeo.
Theater
From 2016-2018, I directed and co-wrote a docu-musical based on the life of afrofuturist luminary Octavia E. Butler. The musical, Octavia of Earth, was a collaboration among a group of artists and featured film and dance in addition to lyrics and music.
Music
Musical styles vary from traditional choral to electronic, jazz, pop, ballads, and musical theater. For Octavia of Earth, the biographical musical about Octavia E. Butler, I co-wrote 2 songs, wrote 4 on my own, and collaborated with another artist on 3 additional ones. We recorded a studio soundtrack album in winter 2018-2019 and launched fall 2019 at www.uncagedlibrarianmusic.com. In 2021, I was thrilled to collaborate with Skip the Needle for a second volume of music, released in 2023 on CD and vinyl in 2024 on streaming services. You can also listen to some of my less polished tracks on SoundCloud.