SKILLS & TOOLS
Event Production & Operations
- End-to-end event planning, logistics, and on-site management
- Project management across simultaneous events and competing deadlines
- Vendor coordination, contract negotiation, and budget management
- Day-to-day operations oversight
- Executive support and stakeholder management
- Problem solving and real-time troubleshooting
Marketing & Communications
- Digital strategy, email marketing, and social media campaigns
- Audience development, community outreach, and attendee engagement
- Branding, messaging, and content strategy
- Writing and editing for promotional and organizational communications
- Customer service and participant experience design
Leadership & Interpersonal
- Team leadership and volunteer management
- Strategic vision and organizational planning
- Emotional intelligence and high-trust community facilitation
- Conflict management and resolution
- Cultural awareness and cross-cultural communication
- Collaborative team and board-level work
Facilitation & Curriculum Design
- Workshop and curriculum design for adult and youth audiences
- Group facilitation and experiential learning
- Speaker coordination and educational programming
Design & Creative
- Graphic design for print and digital: programs, booklets, promotional imagery, signage
- Website design for event promotion and registration
- Extensive photography skills, including group shots, individual portraits, and details
Software & Platforms
- Project & Event Management Asana, Trello, Monday.com, Basecamp, Airtable, Cvent, Eventbrite
- Communication & Collaboration Zoom, Google Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Slack, Microsoft Teams
- Marketing & Email Mailchimp, Constant Contact, HubSpot, ActiveCampaign
- Design & Creative Adobe Creative Suite, Canva
- Registration & Ticketing Eventbrite, Cvent, RegFox, Splash
- Virtual & Hybrid Events Crowdcast, Zoom, Hopin, Vimeo, YouTube
- Venue & Budget Management Planning Pod, Social Tables, AllSeated
- CRM & Sponsorship Salesforce, HubSpot, Copper
CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Embodied Social Justice Certificate — The Embody Lab, 2021
Digital Marketing & Communications Certificate — General Assembly, 2019
Strategic Grant Writing Certificate — Institute for Strategic Funding, 2017
Sacred Intimacy through a Tantric Lens Certificate, 2011–2012
Teaching Artist — Community Word Project, 2005–2006
Community Writing Teacher Certificate — Bent Writing Institute, 2002
EDUCATION
Dual BA Degrees: Creative Writing & Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
University of Washington — Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Lambda Literary Award Finalist — Best Lesbian Erotica Volume 7, 2023
Lambda Literary Award Finalist — Best Lesbian Erotica Volume 5, 2021
National Leather Award — John Preston Short Fiction Award, 2016 & 2019
National Leather Award — Honorable Mention, 2017 & 2019
Alumni Award, Gender Women & Sexuality Studies — University of Washington, 2017
Lambda Literary Award Finalist — Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica, 2016
National Leather Award — Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Award, 2015
Program Development Excellence Award — Body Electric School, 2012
Teacher of the Year — Bent Writing Institute, 2005
JUDGING PANELS
Publishing Triangle Awards — Judge & Judging Panel Chair, 2007, 2019, 2021–2026
Northwest Leather M/s and Person of Leather — Judge, 2025
Washington State Leather Contest — Judge, 2023
Lambda Literary Foundation Lammy Awards — Judge, 2011, 2012, 2018–2022
National Leather Association International Awards — Judge, 2014–2021
Good Sex Awards — Judge, 2021
Sacramento Ms. Leather — Judge, 2019
International Ms. Leather — Judge, 2013