Neighborhood & Parish Intelligence for Progressive Congregations.

I live in Rogers Park, on the north side of Chicago, and I've spent about fifteen years in healthcare marketing and operations — Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, ACA plans. Most of that work was translation: taking something a health plan understood and making it clear enough for a member to actually use.

I'm also a queer person who grew up watching institutions talk past the people they claimed to welcome. That isn't abstract to me. It's why my graduate research at Eastern Michigan University looked at liminality and belonging in queer religious life, why I served on the DEI committee at Affirmations, and why I spent years organizing with the ACLU of Michigan, including the Prop 3 campaign that won 67% of the vote.

I'm a lay member of a mainline congregation — no formal role, no title, no endorsement. I just kept noticing that the churches doing the most good had the hardest time saying so clearly online. So I started building the tools I wished they had: a plain website audit, a jargon translator, honest neighborhood data, a lectionary helper, a grant draft builder. Free, self-service, and honest about what they can't do.

I'm not here to prophecy or sell anyone a rebrand. I'm here to help. If something here is useful, use it. If it's wrong, tell me.