Liberation is at the center of my work.

I am a fat, disabled, queer, parent, child, community member, writer, sociologist, development and communications specialist, artist, process builder, a trainer that specializes in teaching the embeddedness of anti-blackness, colonialism, and an educator.

Change is possible. I have built my work across fields around this belief and I stand by it.

i am mav

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

―Audre Lorde

I do not believe in knowledge for knowledge’s sake. All of my neurodivergent desire to understand the world is centered in my belief that it can be changed.

Currently working on my PhD in sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I am making sure that knowledge becomes action. I have been working in operations and development for the past four years while using my artistic expression, including creative non-fiction writing, to share how my brain interprets the world and systematic inequality.