Building Connection Through Conversation

I provide engaging, story-driven speaking engagements that meet people where they are and leave them with something to carry forward.

Ideal for:

• Schools and colleges
• Conferences and summits
• Tribal communities and organizations
• Community events and awareness campaigns

Topics include:

• Mental health, grief, and resilience
• Suicide prevention and crisis care (988)
• Lived experience and recovery
• Youth leadership and empowerment
• Breaking stigma through vulnerability
• Navigating loss, change, and identity

My speaking style is honest and conversational. I don’t speak at audiences—I speak with them. Each engagement is tailored to the audience, culture, and goals of the event.

I facilitate interactive workshops and trainings that go deeper than a keynote and focus on practical tools, reflection, and conversation.

Ideal for:

• Behavioral health and prevention programs
• Tribal departments and staff
• Educators and school-based teams
• Youth programs and community groups

Workshop focus areas include:

• Lived experience in prevention and crisis response
• Supporting people through grief and crisis
• Building culturally responsive, trauma-informed spaces
• Youth engagement and peer support
• Mental health conversations that actually work

Workshops can be half-day, full-day, or multi-session and are customized to meet the needs of your organization or community.

I work alongside organizations and communities to strengthen programs, messaging, and engagement strategies—especially those focused on community gatherings, mental health, civic engagement, youth empowerment, voter rights, prevention, and crisis response.

Areas of support include:

• Prevention and community outreach strategy
• Lived experience integration into programs and policy
• 988 awareness and community education planning
• Youth engagement and leadership development
• Communications, storytelling, and messaging

My approach is collaborative. I bring both lived experience and systems knowledge to help build programs that are realistic, culturally grounded, and community-centered.

Some work doesn’t fit neatly into a category—and that’s okay.

I regularly collaborate on:

• Community events and forums
• Youth and family engagement initiatives
• Panel discussions and facilitated conversations
• Campaigns, awareness efforts, and storytelling projects

If you have an idea, a need, or a vision that doesn’t fall into a traditional service box, I’m always open to a conversation about how we can build something meaningful together.

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