Social Justice
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Public Scholarship
Learning is a collaborative process shaped by dialogue, feedback, and shared reflection.
My conference presentations and public service during my doctoral education reflect my evolving commitment to public scholarship: translating complex clinical, cultural, and technological questions into conversations that clinicians, educators, researchers, and community partners can use in practice.
In March 2026, I presented “Consent Under Extraction: SHIFTing AI Practices for Queer and Trans Care in Diverse Therapy Environments” at the International Family Therapy Academy Congress in Bergen, Norway.
The presentation examined how artificial intelligence is entering therapy, education, and relational life in ways that can reproduce extraction, surveillance, bias, and harm, particularly for queer, trans, and other structurally marginalized communities. The presentation introduced a framework to help clinicians, educators, and researchers think more carefully about AI, consent, surveillance, bias, and relational accountability in queer and trans care.
A Call to Relational Courage
Published in early 2026, “A Call to Relational Courage” is a public-facing essay I wrote for Antioch Voices, part of the Common Thread forum. Written from my location as an educator, student, relational therapist, and queer and trans brown immigrant, the piece reflects on grief, immigration enforcement, state violence, and the civic practices through which care becomes real.
Foundation for the Advancement of Human Systems Advocacy Visit, Washington, D.C.,
May 2026
As a Doctoral Fellow with the Foundation for the Advancement of Human Systems Minority Fellowship Program, I participated in Capitol Hill advocacy visits focused on behavioral health workforce development, mental health access, prevention, early identification, and culturally responsive care.
The images include a visit to the U.S. Capitol with an external dissertation committee member, a constituent meeting with a representative from Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s office alongside foundation staff, and a meeting with a representative from Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office alongside other doctoral students and alumni.
Public Scholarship
At the End of My Scope is a course-based pilot public scholarship podcast developed for CFT 7940: Advanced Research Seminar. Co-hosted with Brent M. Williams, JD the project brings together a marriage and family therapist and a compliance attorney to think across the edges of clinical care, law, ethics, and everyday life.
The pilot explores topics such as estate planning, death anxiety, money, autonomy, elder vulnerability, and professional scope. It reflects my interest in making complex clinical and ethical questions accessible without flattening their uncertainty.
At the 2025 Antioch University New England CFT Virtual Research and Professional Conference, I co-presented “The Role of Advocacy in Therapy: Power, Ethics & The Law” with Brent M. Williams, JD. This presentation became a foundation for several later papers and projects, including a forthcoming article with the Journal of Family Theory, and reflected my broader commitment to scholarship that connects clinical practice, law, ethics, and social justice. I also served on the conference planning committee.
United States v. Skrmetti
Developed for the course CFT 7040: Family Policy and Advocacy, this artifact demonstrates my ability to translate systemic clinical knowledge into family policy analysis and advocacy. The linked brief applies the Family Impact Lens to United States v. Skrmetti and Tennessee SB1, examining implications for transgender and gender-diverse youth, caregivers, schools, and systems of care.