I’m the printmaker behind the press(es) at radical emprints. I started to learn letterpress printing in 2012, just as I was also beginning to learn about grassroots organizing. I ended up spending about nine years at a base-building organization, where I worked on a health care is a human right campaign and I learned & then started teaching about grassroots fundraising and principled, values-aligned grantwriting (both for when we’re working in orgs within and outside of the non-profit industrial complex.) I was doing all of this while learning how to be a letterpress printer — so it was a natural progression to start putting printmaking & organizing together.

I still do fundraising training with movement organizations as a facilitator with Resource Organizing Project, but now printmaking & poetry are also a big part of my contributions to the movement for collective liberation.

THE PRESS(ES)!
Since 2015-ish, I have been deeply grateful to get to print most of my work on a Vandercook 4 at Pickwick Independent Press. In 2023, I acquired my own Heidelberg Windmill, which has allowed me to start printing in bigger quantities — and which is why I’m finally launching a wholesale website!

SOME SOCIAL LOCATING…
I am a white queer femme, a cis woman, and an art worker. I am based in the unceded Wabanaki territory known as Portland, Maine. It’s important to me to ground my work & writing in my identities and the fact that I am a worker under capitalism.

PRINT SALES & REDISTRIBUTION
Since I started selling prints, I have had a practice of redistributing a portion of my printmaking income as sustaining donations to a collection of movement organizations locally & nationally, as well as contributing to mutual aid efforts & bail funds. I also regularly create fundraising prints for specific causes, including in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Check out these orgs that radical emprints has supported & continues to support.