I serve as the State Senator for Rhode Island District 15, Pawtucket and Providence. Previously, I served two terms as City Councilor for Ward 5 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Find my political website here.

I co-founded and co-direct Conceivable Future, woman-led network of Americans humanizing the consequence of climate change. You can check out our new book here.

I am the a Faculty Representative on the Executive Committee of the Faculty-Staff Union at UMASS Boston.

I sat on the Rhode Island State Housing Appeals Board (SHAB) from 2016-2020.

Along with my students and the editors at RIFuture, I founded The Prison Op-Ed Project, a program teaching writing skills and civic engagement to students living in  Rhode Island state prisons, 2015-2018.
   -Read the series introduction here and the Op-Eds here, and coverage of the project here, here, and here.
   -I spoke on the Prison Op-Ed Project at Providence TEDx on April 9, 2016. Watch the video here.

I play in the Extraordinary Rendition Band, an activist street band based in Providence, RI. Check out an interview here; read something cool here.

I was a 2015-2016 Fellow at the Women's Policy Institute, the flagship program of the Women's Fund of Rhode Island, part of a coalition working to repeal the so-called "tampon tax" in Rhode Island. See press here, here, here, and here. The tax was repealed in 2019.

Along with a colleague on the City Council, I co-organize Crash Pawtucket, a monthly gathering to promote small business and civic engagement in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. See coverage of our kickoff event here.