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The story underneath the work
I notice where people are unsupported. Then I build something useful.
Sometimes that becomes an app.
Sometimes it becomes a workbook.
Sometimes it becomes a story that helps someone feel less alone.
My projects serve different people, but they come from the same way of working: paying attention to the problem, understanding it closely, and creating a more useful next step.
I built a life and career I thought I was supposed to want. When life changed, I found myself starting over and realized I did not have to rebuild the same life.
For more than eight years, I built a career as a certified ASL interpreter. The work taught me how much access, clarity, and human connection matter. It also showed me the gaps people are left inside, and the physical and emotional cost of caring work.
Then tendinitis began changing how much work my body could hold. Divorce and the loss of the life I had planned left me rebuilding in my 30s. Eventually, I realized I did not have to use that opportunity to recreate the exact same life. I could build differently this time, using what I had lived and noticed to shape what came next.
The throughline
I build what I wish had existed in the moments people feel stuck, unseen, or unsupported.
Witnessed communication gaps became Ablaflo and CareSpanish—two different tools shaped around the language needs of different kinds of work.
Lived physical strain, financial pressure, workplace challenges, and the need for a life outside the work became InterpretWell.
Documented reinvention became writing and creator resources.