1997-2003: Worked at Good Works in Athens, Ohio in several positions as a volunteer and an employee. Good Works describes themselves as a “Community of Hope” with many different ministry initiatives seeking justice, unity, and wholeness especially in relation to poverty and homelessness.

2000 - present: Designed and facilitated workshops on Biblical Justice.

2003 - present: Organized and hosted short term visits to Detroit focusing on cross-cultural immersion and learning for student groups from PWI’s.

2004 - present: Initiated and shepherded an interracial, intentional christian community that continues to grow today. We’re currently a “family” of around 7 households with over 25 people who live daily overlapping lives. We share things as mundane as backyards, lawnmowers and a mini-van and as deep as spiritual rhythms, missional partnership and love for our neighbors. Most of us have been in it together for over a decade, bridging the common divides of lines of race, class, ethnicity, age, and more.

2008- 2014: Designed and facilitated Motor City Summer, a summer long immersion program for college students to live in the city, with a focus on racial justice.

2014-2018: Designed, launched, and facilitated (along with a small team of compatriots) a years long, 3 wave, cultural training process that was carried out nationwide with thousands of Navigator staff. It involved multiple day-long trainings, long term follow-up and discussion groups, and further recommendations / action steps for individual and institutional change.

2015: Conceived and launched Facing Race (along with a small team of folks, mostly from our intentional community). This Detroit-based racial justice ministry began with a local conference on race that funneled into multiple long-term interracial discussion groups. At this point I am only peripherally involved in Facing Race, but it continues to expand its work doing racial justice consulting and training with churches, youth groups, and other organizations.