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. I am filing complaints with oversight bodies, pursuing 42 USC 1983 civil rights claims, and documenting alleged procedural violations and rights abuses while simultaneously building this organization and producing its content.

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.

  • Present during Ferguson uprising, 2014
  • Community organizer with CopBlock
  • Founder, Kill the Precedent — systemic accountability advocacy
  • Founder, Phoenix Haven Cooperative Living — trauma-informed housing
  • Citizen media producer, educator, and researcher
  • Neurodivergent parent and civil rights advocate
  • Pursuing federal civil rights claims under 42 USC 1983

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 Haven Cooperative Living's funding strategy, including grant applications targeting Cal OES, HCD, DOJ, HUD, and major California foundations. Phoenix Haven 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.