Speaking

I speak about religious trauma, faith deconstruction, and what it takes to rebuild your life after leaving fundamentalism. I also talk about audio storytelling, memoir craft, and the intersection of race and religion in American communities.


Topics

  • Leaving Fundamentalism What it's really like to walk away from a high-control religion — the harassment, the silence, the slow work of figuring out what you actually believe.

  • Religious Trauma & Recovery How spiritual abuse works, why it's so hard to name, and what healing looks like.

  • Audio Memoir & Storytelling Using voicemails, artifacts, and family archives to tell stories that matter. What I've learned producing 100+ podcast episodes with award-winning life writers.

  • Race, Religion & Whiteness How Scandinavian immigrants earned whiteness through religious conformity — and what that means for understanding American fundamentalism today.

  • Women's Bodies & Religious Control Reproductive coercion, purity culture, and reclaiming embodied knowledge after leaving.


Where I Speak

Podcasts, academic conferences, religious trauma recovery events, writing workshops, and community conversations. I'm comfortable on camera, on mic, and in front of a room.