Post Doctoral Fellowship, Neurodiversity
2025-PresentInstitute for Social Innovation, Fielding Graduate University · Santa Barbara
The Disciplines
Each of these began the same way, with curiosity I couldn't shake. Here is where it led, in the order the doors opened.
I have never been able to stop being a student. Each field that pulled me in, I went and studied, formally, all the way through. Eight degrees and credentials later, I'm still enrolled, and I hope I never stop.
Institute for Social Innovation, Fielding Graduate University · Santa Barbara
Fielding Graduate University · Santa Barbara
Dissertation: First Responder Perspectives on Utilizing Spontaneous Hypnosis as an Adjunct to Emergency Medical Care. Advised by Donald “Four Arrows” Trent-Jacobs, Ph.D., Ed.D. 550 clock hours of practical experience.
Herzing University · Madison
Liberty University · Lynchburg
Fielding Graduate University · Santa Barbara
Liberty University · Lynchburg
Concentrations in Psychology and Communications.
Tarleton State University · Stephenville
Honors College · Psychology and Communications concentration.
Liberty University · Fielding Graduate University
Odessa College · Lone Star College, Houston
Plus continuing study with Stanford, Johns Hopkins, King’s College London, FEMA, and the U.S. Department of Justice, a long tail of curiosity.
Eventually I crossed to the other side of the classroom. Teaching forced everything I'd learned to become useful to someone else, and that turned out to be the best education of all.
Herzing University · via Knack
Supporting nursing students through coursework in pathophysiology, pharmacology, clinical practice, and graduate-level systems and population health.
University of the People
Designed and taught nine courses spanning psychology, sociology, leadership, and business communication, focused on preparing students for both academic and professional life.
Fielding Graduate University
Committee member for Dr. Peggie Russell's dissertation, Heart Wisdom as a Basis for a Curriculum for Young Adults Starting College.
Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate
Presented Medical Response and Hypnosis Communication.
Distance Education Accrediting Commission
Also a Community College Professor Affiliate of the American Psychological Association and a contributor to eLearning Industry.
In the end, the questions got personal. I wanted to be in the room when someone is at their worst and still be able to help. So I trained as a clinician, and now I'm training as a nurse.
Rose Health · Fort Worth
Evidence-based psychological services, therapy, and treatment planning, with partnerships expanding access through Talkspace and Online-Therapy.
Crosspoint Health · Fort Worth
Conducted assessments and coordinated comprehensive care with other healthcare professionals.
LifeWorks
Clinical assessments, critical-incident stress management, and problem-gambling assessment for EAP members.
Texas · Virginia · Vermont · Florida
Qualified Behavior Analyst (QBA).
Ascension Via Christi · Manhattan
Medical-Surgical clinical experience, pursuing nursing alongside the master's in clinical mental health counseling. The next chapter.
My first real training was in the press pool, learning to ask hard questions in rooms where the answers carried weight. I've been writing to make sense of the world ever since.
The Narrative Times
Covered presidential events, press briefings, and policy announcements. Posed direct questions to the administration, delivered live analysis of State of the Union addresses, summits, and debates, and wrote investigative and long-form political reporting.
DC Chronicle
Led media relations, crisis communication, content, and social strategy. Built relationships across newsrooms and wrote grant proposals, impact reports, and donor communications.
Amazon Publishing
Wired for Love: Neurodivergent Languages (2025) and Navigating the Path: A Comprehensive Guide for Parents of Special-Needs Children (2023).
BuzzFeed · The Dallas Morning News · Denton Record-Chronicle
Two dozen-plus published articles, op-eds, and letters, the full list lives on The Journey.
Understanding a problem was never enough for me. I kept gravitating toward the rooms where decisions actually get made, agencies, school boards, campaigns , to push for the change the understanding demanded.
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Authored a formal recommendation on cannabis controlled-substance rescheduling (Docket No. DEA-1362).
Wichita Public Schools
Disability settlement recommendations for the district's student handbook and policies.
Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD
Advised the school board on educational goals and district-wide instructional programs. The committee comprises parents, community members, business representatives, and professional staff including teachers and principals.
Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD
Ensured community values were reflected in health education instruction.
Local campaigns · American Youth in Politics
Director of Communications for school-board campaigns and youth-civics organizations.
Civil Air Patrol · U.S. Air Force Auxiliary
Eleven years of service in leadership roles, including Public Affairs Officer and Health Services Officer. Authored the Presidential Medal of Freedom nomination of Sgt. Billy Randolph, submitted to The White House.
The same curiosity that drove every other discipline eventually demanded a screwdriver. I build the tools I need and, along the way, have shipped a desktop operating environment, an AI document platform, a suite of open-source extensions, and clinical data infrastructure, mostly because nothing off the shelf quite fit.
XMethod Organization · TypeScript · Electron · SwiftUI
A modular desktop platform built on Electron with a native SwiftUI client for macOS and iOS. Designed to replace fragmented app ecosystems with a unified workspace for communication, productivity, and AI-assisted work.
XMethod Organization · Python
AI-powered ingestion, extraction, and retrieval-augmented generation over structured and unstructured documents, built for healthcare and legal-adjacent professional contexts.
PHP · MediaWiki · Google APIs
A complete library of MediaWiki extensions adding AI chat, user blogs, social cards, page analytics, user verification, group messaging, newsletter distribution, Google Workspace SSO, and PDF export to wiki-based communities.
Python · XMethod Organization
A custom Model Context Protocol server exposing internal tools to Claude and other LLM clients; self-hosted AI interfaces; ClinTrax behavioral-health case tracking; and a social network analysis platform supporting graduate academic research.