Origin

I was present during the Ferguson uprising. I've worked with CopBlock. I've done the work on the ground, in the streets, and in the courtrooms long before it was visible or valued. My understanding of state power, institutional harm, and the gap between civil rights in theory and civil rights in practice didn't come from books — it came from being inside the system while refusing to stop fighting it.

"I am building the thing that should already exist — while living inside the crisis it's meant to address."

I founded Kill the Precedent because the infrastructure of accountability doesn't exist at the scale it needs to. There is no single platform that connects qualified immunity reform to child welfare to coercive control to neurodivergence and systemic bias — and names them all as civil liberties issues. That connection is the work. That's what KTP is built to do.

Lived Experience as Expertise

I am a neurodivergent parent currently navigating a dependency case in real time. I am asserting parental rights under IDEA at IEP meetings across school districts, documenting what I am witnessing and building this organization and producing its content simultaneously.

I say this not for sympathy. I say it because lived experience is not anecdote — it is data, it is standing, and it is credibility that no academic credential can replicate. When I write about family court dynamics, coercive control, or the failure to protect doctrine, I am not summarizing a study. I am reporting from inside the machine.

The Work Right Now

Kill the Precedent is building a public-facing research and media infrastructure from the ground up — an interactive database linking foster care to trafficking outcomes, sourced statistical reference materials across four pillars, educational content, a podcast, and mandatory training curriculum frameworks for child welfare workers and family court professionals.

I am also developing Phoenix Rising Cooperative Living's funding strategy, including grant applications targeting Cal OES, HCD, DOJ, HUD, and major California foundations. Phoenix Rising is built on one core principle: trauma-informed care that keeps mothers and children together, rather than fracturing families in the name of intervention.

"You cannot pick which rights to defend. Accountability is indivisible."

If you are a researcher, attorney, journalist, organizer, funder, or survivor who sees themselves in this work — this is an open invitation. The load is real and the need for collaboration is urgent.

What Kill the Precedent Stands For

Kill the Precedent operates from a simple premise: that accountability is not a radical idea. It is the baseline expectation of every democratic institution — and the gap between that expectation and the current reality is where families are being destroyed.

We are not anti-government. We are pro-accountability. We are not against law enforcement or child welfare workers. We are against the training gaps, funding incentives, and institutional cultures that produce harmful outcomes even when individuals within those systems genuinely intend to help.

We believe in the rule of law — applied equally. We believe that the ADA means what it says. That due process applies to parents. That 42 USC 1983 exists because the architects of Reconstruction understood that good intentions are not a substitute for enforceable rights. We believe that federal statutes do not become optional because enforcing them is inconvenient for an agency.

We believe that most people who enter child welfare and law enforcement do so because they want to protect people. We also believe that wanting to protect people is not sufficient preparation for doing it accurately — and that the harm caused by undertrained, misdirected, or institutionally incentivized practitioners is no less real because it wasn't intended.

We document. We train. We publish. We name what is happening in plain language with sources attached, because the most powerful accountability tool available to any family navigating these systems is accurate information about their rights and the documented evidence of how those rights are being honored or violated.

Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant. Transparency protects everyone — the family being assessed, the practitioner doing the assessing, and the children whose safety is the stated purpose of the entire apparatus. An objective record does not take sides. It simply makes the interaction visible to anyone who needs to see it.

We are building the infrastructure of accountability that should already exist — through research, training, documentation, and the persistent, evidence-based insistence that the systems meant to protect vulnerable people actually do that.

This is not anti-government advocacy. This is what civic engagement looks like when the people who need the system to work are the same people it is currently failing.