About

Hi, I’m Jé.

I’m a public health social scientist and storyteller concerned with police violence and the process of cultural violence that leads to accepting hyper-surveillance. My mission is to challenge how we collectively think about punishment, control, and violence. I am driven by a desire to carve out new modalities for achieving safety and wellness.

My expertise is in critical qualitative methodologies, applied theory, and holding the weight of traumatic first-person accounts of violence. I’ve spent hours in conversation with Black and other minoritized people as they share some of their worst experiences with the confluence of interpersonal violence, state violence, and the violence of inhumanely designed systems and structures. My goal is to deliver work that is meaningful and makes a lasting impact, but also centers the voices and perspectives of those most affected.

I balance this sometimes deeply painful work through more creative endeavors – foodscaping, woodworking, painting, and dancing – as well as spending time with my two dogs.