Now
Updated when the shape of things changes, not on a schedule.
Working on
- Closing out Avi Lewis's NDP leadership campaign through September 2026. Elections Canada audits and compliance filings come with the territory for a regulated leadership race; getting them right is the less visible work.
- Translating what the campaign proved — that left-populist, eco-socialist politics won the room decisively — into the party's EDA and regional organizing. Operational lessons, not just ideas.
- Helping the NDP recover from its disastrous 2025 federal result: taking responsibility for repairs we inherited, making a clean break from the strategy that produced them.
- Building durable working partnerships with the campaign's leadership team. People I trusted in the hardest stretches, now thinking together about what the next decade of this work looks like.
- Taking real downtime. The last two years were intense; this part is load-bearing, not a gap in the plan.
- A quieter cadence of entrepreneurship and digital work at Sword Fern Digital — tools and implementation for progressive campaigns and small organizations in Canada.
Time with
- Jeffrey, my husband — the time I wasn't giving during the campaign.
- My chosen family in the West End of Vancouver — the friends who kept the door open across the campaign years.
- My nieces and nephews here in Vancouver, and family in Calgary.
- Turning work relationships into friendships — new comrades from the campaign, now getting time together outside the meeting room.
Reading
- The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss. Fiction again, finally.
- The Hyperion Cantos — Dan Simmons. A chapter or two at a time; it rewards that.
- Ursula K. Le Guin's non-fiction — The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction is changing how I think about political storytelling.
- Empire of AI — Karen Hao. The OpenAI book I'd been waiting for.
- Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism (forthcoming). Their Guardian essay is required reading in the meantime.
- Cory Doctorow, broadly. Full of lessons for this moment.
Thinking about
- What durable political infrastructure looks like between election cycles — the version that survives past the campaign machine.
- How campaign lessons — big organizing, left-populism as a winning register, eco-socialism as a political identity — translate down into riding-level and regional work without being flattened into a generic playbook.
- Political work in the era of cheap compute: what to automate, what to delegate to machine-learning, and how to keep the craft illegible to hyperscalers and authoritarians.
- Publishing less often and more carefully, and what a website is for in an era of algorithmic feeds.
Not doing
- Publishing primary writing anywhere but here. Social platforms point at it; they don't hold it.
- New commitments past September without a real reason.
- Treating the rest between now and September as a gap to fill.
Want to talk?
If something here overlaps with what you're working on — party renewal, operational leadership, small publishing, the quiet web — I'd like to hear from you.