“I am passionate about the importance of fostering resilient and transformative relationships, communities, and worlds. When I first began at MAN, I was struck by the relationships she was able to form with the individuals and families. I quickly realized that this was undoubtedly the cornerstone of impactful community work and helping people reach their goals. Years later, I can say my passion for relationship building is still my guiding principle in all that I do. Through the relationships I’ve built at MAN and through years of community activism, I have also increasingly realized the imperative need for white people to, humbly and diligently, commit to ending white supremacist culture. I am dedicated to using my various intersections of privilege to do this both professionally and personally and I look forward to the other possible worlds that we can collectively create.”

Molly moved to Sacramento in 2015 where she immediately found a work home at Mutual Assistance Network. Starting as an AmeriCorps Home Visitor she thought she would only stay for a year or so. She’s still here, however, now managing one of the Home Visitation programs and still enamored by the transformative community work done day in and day out. Molly has held various positions at MAN, always maintaining a strong commitment to social justice and equity. She’s worked collectively on racial equity-focused policy change, supported the Black Child Legacy Campaign efforts to reduce African American death disparities, and sat on the Steering Committee of Resilient Sacramento in order to bring a stronger racial justice and equity focus to local work in trauma and resilience. Molly is a proud queer femme, and finds that social justice work must take an intersectional lens to be truly transformative. She’s currently in an online Masters of Social Work program, still figuring out what she wants to do when she “grows up,” but knowing that whatever it is will center around building relationships in order to dismantle this-heteronormative imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.