About
Who is the person who does all of these things, and why do they belong together?
The subjects change more than the work does.
I'm a digital marketing manager with 10+ years in community building and content strategy, currently running content for Bigleaf Networks' Go Beyond the Connection podcast, turning every episode into a full content ecosystem across blog, social, and newsletter.
Outside of work, I run Tabby's Tiny Tabbies, a Houston-based neonatal kitten rescue I founded in 2023, built on 25+ years of personal fostering experience.
I also write under my own name at Non-Standard Human, exploring human variation and the systems built for a "standard" user that most of us don't fit. I write about relationships through Polyamorous Perspectives, and I make books and other creative things under names including Tabitha Gentry.
The subjects change, but I'm usually doing some version of the same thing: figuring out how something works, building better systems around it, communicating what I've learned, and helping whatever I'm working with grow.
Through-lines
What connects the work
Curiosity, then systems
I follow interesting problems across conventional category boundaries, and I usually end up building a system around whatever I find.
Teaching and learning
Two decades of teaching — music, early childhood, and later technical audiences — shaped how I explain things and how I structure information for other people.
Technology, from the start
My relationship with technology substantially predates my marketing career, which is why technical subjects don't feel like foreign territory.
Community
Communities are the through-line: developer communities, hosting communities, rescue volunteers, readers. The mechanics are surprisingly similar.