I am a Native American Relief Aid volunteer, activist, and writer, specializing in Social Rehabilitation with torture survivors, primarily young people from the West Bank and Gaza, but with additional experience in other areas of the Middle East and Kosova. I have worked with children and adults suffering from trauma related stress, injury rehabilitation, and social development with European based NGOs as well as international aid agencies such as Medicines Sans Frontieres and The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. I have a Masters in Social Welfare (MSW) from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Anthropology from San Francisco State University.

I am married to a Jewish Israeli Refusenik and torture survivor and though we maintain ongoing residency in San Francisco, where I consider home, we have lived and worked around the world in Palestine, Israel, and the United Kingdom with brief intervals in other parts of the European Union, Australia, and Canada. I have worked and campaigned with Jews Against the Occupation, the International Solidarity Movement, Human Rights Watch, and Gush Shalom. I believe in a just solution to the ongoing conflict in the Levant, involving the dismantling and dissolution of all Jewish settlements within the West Bank, the end of US tax aid to Israel, the return of Palestinian refugees to their ethnic homeland and a secular one state solution offering equal sovereignty and protection to all citizens of the area, regardless of ethnic or religious origin. In addition to those whom I've cared for, many of my friends and colleagues, along with my own family, live within Israel and Palestine and face regularly the dangers and misgivings of life amidst an ongoing war. I feel a fundamental obligation to continue working toward justice and subsequent peace within the region, as well as, for the evolution of human rights worldwide.