Some people will find this post because they already know me; others may be coming to this post directly from social media. If you’re the latter, here’s my bio, and the basic pitch:

I’ve spent twenty years facilitating workshops – while people might assume that means “teaching poetry classes,” creative writing has really always been just a fraction of what I do. A lot of my facilitation work in non-creative writing spaces has happened organically, via relationships, but I thought I’d set up a page here to make some of my offerings explicit.

I would love to bring any of these to your local Indivisible chapter, or DSA chapter, or neighborhood group, or church group, or student org, or informal collective, or any other progressive activist formation. Not because I’m some amazing expert or authority (I’m not!), but because these kinds of workshops can be powerful opportunities to both build practical skills and forge relationships.

The following workshops can be in-person or virtual. Get in touch!

(And of course, while this post highlights these specific offerings, you can find info on all of my other work—school residencies, performances, keynotes, etc.—at that same booking link)

12/8/25 UPDATE: If you are looking for Twin Cities-oriented whistle zines to print, check this out!

I just wanted to set up a landing page so if I continue to share info about this stuff, I can just reference a single URL. If, for example, a document gets updated, I don’t want to have to send out new links all the time. THIS page will have the most recent drafts of stuff like the whistle zine, as well as the various supplementary notes to help people make sense of everything.

1. THE QUICK PITCH: In Chicago, people have been using whistles (alongside a little zine explaining the tactic; see it here) to protect each other from ICE. We made a Twin Cities-oriented “remix” of that zine: it condenses two pages from the original into one, and then adds a page of local resources: our rapid response line, legal aid stuff, etc. To be clear: this remix isn’t a project of any organization or official group; just neighbors crowdsourcing info and sharing at the grassroots level.

2. THE FILE: This is a cryptpad link to a two-page PDF: English on one page, Spanish on the other. You can print it doublesided if you want, but the way zines work, only one side is actually seen. So my plan is to print batches (one-sided) of whichever one I need at that moment. Here is a proton link to a one-pager version that someone made, in case you don’t know how (or just don’t like) to fold zines!

Here is an even more updated collection of links to print, courtesy of MSPwhistles.