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Continue readingWriter · Operations leader · Memphis
I follow the work beneath the words.
I’m an operations leader and writer based in Memphis. I have spent years making complicated work easier to carry, then tracing the policies, incentives, and habits that decide who carries the cost.
What holds the work together
The people carrying a system deserve warmth and careful attention. The system itself can withstand a sharper question.
My work moves between writing, operations, civic research, and public conversation. I’m interested in the distance between what an institution says and what people experience when the pressure arrives.
Writing
Ideas worth staying with.
Selected work
I make complicated work easier to carry.
Some projects explain. Others keep track. All of them begin with a real operating problem and a need for clearer use.
See the full body of workCivic researchMemphis Unified
Research, maps, and long-form analysis about regional fragmentation, public systems, and what a more coherent Memphis region would require.
Visit Memphis Unified ↗Civic recordsMemphis Civic Issue TrackerAn issue-first public record of Memphis decisions, meetings, statements, and developing consequences, with source labels that preserve what is confirmed and what remains open.
Open the tracker ↗Education governanceMSCS Takeover TrackerA source-first chronology of Tennessee’s intervention in Memphis-Shelby County Schools, including official notices, court filings, agenda-only material, and unresolved watchpoints.
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Memphis
Place keeps the writing accountable.
Leadership language has to answer to actual people, institutions, histories, and consequences. Memphis keeps those questions close to the surface.
Read more about the workNow · July 19, 2026
What has my attention.
Maintaining a source-first record of developing Memphis civic issues and the decisions moving around them.
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