i am mav

Liberation is at the center of my work.

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

Close-up photo of a woman with dark curly hair, wearing black glasses, gold hoop earrings, a nose ring, and a black and white patterned sweater, smiling and showing her teeth, with a white background.

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

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

This site holds the different rooms of that work — research, writing, design, and the organizations I build alongside. Come in.

“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