It would be irresponsible for me to share this work without acknowledging the countless people — many queer and BIPOC— that have inspired my revillaging lens today. 

Whether it’s through conversations we had on THIS IS HOW WE CARE, through reading books, attending workshops and coaching containers, or simply through being in relationship, here’s a growing list of the people that have helped to form and shape my revillaging perspective. 

Please check out and support their work where linked below. 

  • Mia Birdsong for her book “How We Show Up” 

  • Angela Garbes and her books “Like a Mother” and “Essential Labor”

  • Toi Marie for her work in redirecting Founding Mothers to This is How We Care and our conversation about shifting societal norms

  • Darcia Narvaez for her books “Restoring the Kinship Worldview” and “The Evolved Nest”

  • adrienne maree brown for her books “Emergent Strategy”, “Pleasure Activism", “We Will Not Cancel Us” and our conversation around accountability to one another 

  • Mariah Rankine-Landers for helping me to see that everything is a creative process (and that creative process is how we can create social change)

  • James Olivia Chu-Hillman for unpacking some of the ways we engage in relational fuckery (and how we can cultivate relational joy instead)

  • Amber O’Neal Johnston for her episode on Homeschooling that showed me how we still have a responsibility to our community’s public school system even if we homeschool 

  • Sara Elise for illustrating how abundance can be found in community and the role of queerness in rethinking family 

  • David Jay for his book “Relationality”  

  • Bobbie Breckenridge for the friendship & coaching in my initial year postpartum that helped me see my first vision for a village of support  

  • Brittany Chambers for connecting the dots between a need for nervous system support as we revillage 

  • Rowen White for our conversation on shifting language from “food systems” to “relational food landscape” and what it means to be accountable to a community 

  • Danielle M Jones for her vision of an intentional community with Sankofa Village  

  • Kevin F. Adler and Miracle Messages for the paradigm-shift in seeing “the unhoused” as simply our “unhoused neighbors”

  • My daughters for giving me the biggest “why” I could ever have 

  • My husband, Charlie, for all his support and partnership in many of my revillaging experiments

  • My parents & my old childhood neighbors Suzanne and Eddy for the initial imprint of “neighborliness” 

  • My friend-since-college Alex Robinson (aka Blue Eyed Baker) who introduced me to what a village could look like since visiting her hometown 12+ years ago 

  • Every other conversation I had on This is How We Care further validated the need for the revillaging path and I thank every single one of these guests for their time and shared wisdom.