Jaguar + Thistle Consulting

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With more than two decades of experience in building people power, I’m here to support your work for our collective liberation with skills honed by two decades in movement work including:

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  • We offer support for communications strategy including branding, media strategies, building communications plans, storytelling and video production, and more

  • We can help plan, execute, and win your issue campaign including laying out a base-building plan, researching targets, building out your demands, planning your advocacy strategy, and managing your ongoing campaign.

  • Do you need someone to plan your staff retreat? Facilitate a tough conversation? Train your members on how to lobby or how Congress works? We’re here for you!

  • Staring at a blank page? We’re here to help you get your ideas on paper with speechwriting, writing op-eds, talking points, grantwriting, and proposal development.

About Me

I’ve spent more than 20 years fighting for justice and building people-power as an organizer, narrative strategist, political operative, writer, policy wonk, program manager, and political healer. I’ve worn a lot of hats - including policy director, communications director, and training director for national movement organizations. I love to take on projects that don’t fit neatly in one box, that require some creativity, and that are grounded in face-to-face organizing. I think radical imagination is critical and I believe that liberation and healing can only truly be done collectively. As a white queer femme from a bilingual and bicultural family, I know my work must always begin and end with dismantling structural white supremacy.

I’ve worked on a wide variety of issues including immigration, environmental justice, housing justice, abolition and decarceration, labor organizing, gender and reproductive justice, ending payday lending, taking on big corporations and the wealthiest few, medicare for all, and more. I’ve spent the last ten years especially focused on how base-led movement organizations can win real change through the political and policy process. As a proud Political Healer, I’m always thinking about how ritual and public memory shape what’s possible and I’m committed to centering the vision and leadership of womxn of color in our movements.  

I’m always happy to nerd out about anything from poetry to herbal remedies to obscure Congressional procedure to fan fiction (I think fan fiction is an incredible political tool and I’ll die on that hill). I’m the mom of two incredible tiny humans and I live on unceded Duwamish territory in Seattle, WA with my partner, my kids, my suegra, and two naughty puppies.