Hi! I'm Phoenix.

I'm passionate about building resilient communities, teaching people new skills and ideas, and imagining a future built on foundations of care and creativity.
I embrace the Slow Movement, mindful media interactions, gentle parenting, and finding joy in the small moments of our lives. I love books! Check out my reading list for reviews and recommendations.
I make mixed media art, zines, murals, and colouring pages.

I went to school for human geography, which is like if you put all the social sciences and some of the physical sciences into a big pot, stirred it up, and poured out some maps.
This made me pretty good at understanding many of the complex problems in our world, including climate change, globalization & urbanization, and why capitalism is such a broken system to live in.
During my master's program, I focused on geographies of health and making complicated academic and legal writing on that subject more accessible to the broader community.

I am a white settler living on the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas -- commonly referred to as Hamilton, Ontario.
This area is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek to share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes; as well as the Between the Lakes Purchase (1792) between the Missisaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Crown.
I support the Land Back movement and dedicate time each week to learning more about the world around me from the perspective of the Indigenous peoples who have been on this land for much longer than any of my ancestors.