WHAT MATTERS TO ME

Because I help people communicate in ways that give them more influence, it’s worth being clear about what I stand for — and what I won’t support.

I stand for basic human dignity. 
I won’t help anyone use their voice to degrade or dehumanize others — whether on the basis of gender, sexuality, race, immigration status, economic position, or any other dimension of human identity.

I stand for the responsible use of power. 
I won’t support the use of power as an end in itself — the belief that having power confers the right to use it without restraint or accountability. I also won’t support advocacy that fails to take seriously foreseeable harm — even when the intent is genuinely good.

I stand for recognizing that we are a part of and dependent on the world we live in. 
I won’t support the careless destruction of the natural systems everything depends on.

I stand for curiousity and open-heartedness.
I believe that good people hold genuinely different views about how to live, and that those differences deserve an open-hearted curiosity.

These commitments aren’t a wall. They’re a foundation — the conditions I believe are necessary for real difference to exist and be held with care.