Welcome folks! I’m Mack, a white queer non-binary organizer, coach, and facilitator living in Oakland, CA on unceded Lisjan Ohlone Land. I have spent the last nine years working as a mental health rehabilitation specialist within Hayward, Alameda, and Oakland Unified School Districts. During this time, I’ve worked at over a dozen public school campuses to support young people in receiving therapeutic and behavioral support in counseling enriched classrooms. Through this lens, I began to develop and lead workshops for teachers, parents, and school communities on healing centered frameworks, de-escalation strategies, fostering community, intersectionality, and creating affirming spaces for queer and trans youth.

I simultaneously began organizing with Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) in 2016, an organization that mobilizes white people for racial justice as part of a multi-racial and Black-led movement. Through SURJ workshops, teach-ins, and 1:1 relationships, I began supporting people in developing skills and practice to interrupt the ways we socialize young people into white supremacy culture. Through this necessary work of dismantling white supremacy, I was offered a path towards beloved community, interdependence, and a positive white racial identity that was committed to building deeply loving and accountable relationships with other white folks as we work towards collective liberation.

It is through this work that led me here. I absolutely loved working with the amazing young people who allowed me to feel joy and laughter each day, and also felt the deep desire to continue facilitating liberatory spaces for the adults that support them. In order to be in this work long term, we need spaces that feel nourishing. We need community, and we need each other. It is my hope to create spaces where we can connect more deeply and feel a sense of belonging as we work towards building the liberated world we want to live in.