How I chose this profession
I have been on a vision quest throughout my career, seeking to build community across
identity groups. I spent years as a practitioner in community building, community organizing and
conflict transformation. Social work provided the strongest theoretical and practice foundation for
this work. I pursued this quest for community-led social change in both my social work practice and
studies. Having initiated several change movements and nonprofit organizations, I realized the
capacity to affect change was much greater through training, teaching, applied research, and
writing.
