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What I do at NHMHC: initiate and manage projects that heighten the effectiveness of health, mental health, and human service providers and their agencies in serving clients from all cultures.
Having lived in such diverse places as rural New England, urban Jackson Mississippi, and a college town in Finland, I bring a breadth of experience of divergent cultural ways. As a young adult my heart was captured by justice movements in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. Ten years of hard work in solidarity with these movements helped me learn the life of the campesino/a, and learn Spanish. I speak Spanish, French, Finnish, and English, and am currently debating whether the next language I learn will be Haitian Creole, Swahili, or Arabic.
If I had to choose another career, it would be to run a language school, teach a language in somebody else's school, be an interpreter, or be a fabric artist.
I work here because justice, learning and teaching about cultures, and opposing racism are huge passions of mine. I work here because the border areas between classes and cultures are familiar places for me.
Favorite sound: a whoop of joy and adrenaline as my line in hockey executes a breakout advancing the puck toward the goal...
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