Current Projects

Mend Peacemaker Curriculum

Mend, Director - Overseeing Mend’s steering efforts to heal deep societal divides, and advocate for a truly equitable and just society. Our mission is to cultivate the common good and nurture restorative justice, unity and the common good.

Past Projects

Flourish OKC, Restorative Justice Platform Lead - Flourish fosters collaboration among community builders, peacemakers, and culture creators in Oklahoma City. Together, we're reshaping the landscape of creative partnership.

The Oklahomans For Grace Campaign, Project Manager - The Oklahomans For Grace Campaign stands with faith leaders, community advocates, and change agents to champion a moratorium on the death penalty in Oklahoma. We're committed to implementing the recommendations of the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission, ensuring fairness, innocence, and humane treatment.

Flourish OKC’s Restorative Justice Fellowship Administrator - a 9-month transformative journey that connects restorative justice practitioners to one another and integrates them within the Flourish OKC community. Together, we're fostering sustainability and readiness for future endeavors in restorative justice.

On Being’s Social Healing Fellowship, Fellow - The fellowship accompanies a small cohort of ten leaders who are initiating and fostering social healing efforts in their local communities — with attention to those devoted to facets of social healing work that address deep fractures in our public life, particularly in terms of engaging racial healing work and/or addressing rural/urban divides.

Consultant - Consult for Organizations around Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging: Oklahoma Women’s Coalition - Pipeline to Politics, Lilyfield - Americorps Participants, Churches, and CityCare OKC

2017 The Clonard Monastery Peace and Reconciliation Mission Community Placement- The mission is to awaken the Church and the world to the call of God to bring peace to the Earth, respecting the dignity of each person, enabling them to contribute to the common good and enhancing in our society the longed for culture of encounter, bonding and partnership. The location of Clonard Monastery on the "borderline" between the Catholic Falls and the Protestant Shankill placed it at the centre of the deep-seated historical conflict. The Clonard Peace and Reconciliation Mission continues to work and pray for the reconciliation and unity of all Christ’s disciples.

Speaking Engagements 

  • Mend Flourish 2024, Oklahoma - Peacemaker Cohort Speaker Series

  • Mend Chrysalis Retreat 2024, Oklahoma - Speaker on Justice and Rest

  • Flourish OKC Restorative, 2022, Sante Fe, New Mexico, Anti-Death Penalty Retreat

  • Flourish OKC 2022, Oklahoma - Restorative Justice Faith Symposium

  • Simplicity Church 2021, Oklahoma 

  • The Zarrow Symposium 2020, Oklahoma - Workshop - Peace and Technology

  • Confidence Con - 2019, Oklahoma - Panel Speaker

  • The Spero Project 2017, Oklahoma- Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

Publications and Research

  • Peacemaker Book and Curriculum 2025

  • The Mend Flourish Blog, 2024

  • 2024, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Exploring the International Court of Justice Evolving Jurisprudence on the Genocide Convention, Preliminary Measures, Reparation amid Hegemonic Power Dynamics 

  • 2023, The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies -  Research Assistant

  • 2020, Flourish OKC, Restorative Justice Learning Initiative Curriculum  - The curriculum is designed to interact with digital activities and engage with round-table videos of justice-involved individuals and experts in the reform field. The curriculum is designed to be self-paced and can be engaged by an individual or group. 

  • 2017, Trinity College Dublin, The Holy ‘Cyber’ Lands: Palestinian/Israeli People-to-People Dialogue through #PeaceTech - jointly received the UK James Haire Dissertation Award.

Education

  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at Fletcher School of Global Affairs at Tufts University in December of 2023, focusing on Global Governance and International Organizations.

  • Master of Philosophy in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation at Trinity College Dublin, Irish School of Ecumenics, in 2017

  • Master of Arts in Practical Theology at Regent University in 2016

  • Bachelor of Arts, the University of Oklahoma, Administrative Leadership 2010

  • Introduction to Conflict Mediation Trinity College Dublin, March 2017