I work for social change as a community and systems innovator, culture change activist, writer, and artist. I live on Squaxin Island Tribe land: Olympia, Washington.
I see disconnection – from self, each other, and the world – as the chief barrier to our collective growth and healing. I’m working toward a reconnecting world, where we are healing each other and our natural home, by connecting people and communities to our collective vision for transformation and repair.
I’m currently enrolled in the Evergreen State College Changemakers lab, a social change entrepreneurship program, where I am developing a community innovation incubator dedicated to individual and collective healing. I am also a Restorative Justice Fellow at the college’s Prison Education Program, where I am researching and developing educational and healing programming for students inside and outside of the prison system.
I am also enrolled in the U-Lab program at MIT, where I am training in awareness-based systems change and collective action.
In my work I have produced videos about healing (11 million views), presented on community healing before the Washington State legislature, and have been featured in the Seattle Times, New Yorker, NPR, and the Rachel Maddow Show. My writing has been published in the Best American series (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
My work is dedicated to the healing of human beings everywhere. It is through the healing of human beings that I hope to help heal the world.
Links
The Standard Rainbow Hour – My free newsletter. Updates on my work.
Standard Rainbow – My creative studio for transformative media.
My creative work is offered in the spirit of gift. It is entirely supported by viewers. You can support my work on Patreon and elsewhere.
Works
Squirrel Dialogues – my video series about mental health and healing. Squirrel Dialogues has amassed over 10 million views since 2020.
Vintage Evan WL
Historical YouTube (videos from 1998–2015)
For more of my past works, see my somewhat neglected portfolio (sorry, portfolio).
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