Who I Am…
I grew up in Muncie, attended the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanity, and spent eight years in Kentucky working in the service industry before coming back to Indiana. I came back for the simplest reason — I fell back in love with my high school sweetheart, we got married, and Franklin became home.
That's where the roots went in.
The Work
I own and operate the Rewilding Collective in Franklin — a massage therapy, yoga, and somatic care practice rooted in nervous system awareness and trauma-informed care. Pay-what-you-can options are built in because access to care shouldn't depend on income. Sound baths are always free.
The Rewilding Collective is my life's work. It is also, at its core, the same work as everything else I do — helping people and communities come back to themselves.
My volunteer life spans a pretty wide range — food security, local politics, community spaces that are hard to categorize. The through-line is showing up where things are being built or held together by a small group of people who care. I've also become someone people call when they're stuck — on strategy, on structure, on what to do next. That work finds me more than I seek it out, and it's some of the most satisfying problem-solving I do.
How I got here…
The Indiana Academy prepared me for a kind of rigorous, interdisciplinary thinking that traditional college settings couldn't quite meet. I eventually found what I was looking for at Lexington Healing Arts Academy for massage therapy and the Essence of Yoga Center for Self Inquiry for yoga teacher training. I learned best when the education was embodied — when it asked something of the whole person, not just the mind.
That's still true. It shapes how I practice, how I organize, and how I intend to serve in this office.
Why the trustee race?
The FUN Township Trustee office does direct, practical community care — rent assistance, utility help, groceries, burial costs. It is unglamorous, essential work. I have been doing the informal version of it my whole adult life.
I'm not running because I want a political career. I'm running because this office should be held by someone who already understands what it means to show up for people when things get hard — and I do.
Johnson County skews Republican and I know this is an uphill race. I'm running anyway because the work matters, because name recognition and relationships built now serve this community long term, and because someone should be on the ballot who actually believes in what this office is supposed to do.