About
About
My Journey
It took me a while to see that advocacy was the thread running through everything I did.
Personally and professionally, I've navigated and advocated within communities living with disability, neurodivergence, and systemic exclusion. I learned early that advocacy isn't about speaking for someone. It's about creating space for voices that have been ignored, dismissed, or silenced.
When I formally discovered intuitive interspecies communication (IIC) in 2011, everything shifted.
The living world had always been communicating. Not metaphorically. Actually.
Once I understood that, the world as I understood it began to shift. I wasn't simply learning a way to communicate with more-than-human life. I was discovering a different way of understanding our relationship with and within the living world.
Intuitive interspecies communication transformed my life.
That's when advocacy expanded beyond the human world.
I started offering private communication consultations, helping people remember, or re-member, their own capacity for IIC, and supporting them as they practised it in their relationships with the more-than-human. Yet the questions I was asking weren't just about communication - they were about what we do with what we hear.
What if the beings and ecosystems that we're making decisions about could inform those decisions?
I work alongside my IIC colleagues, whose work helps people re-member their own capacity to connect with the more-than-human. Together, we're contributing to a larger shift: from seeing Nature as something separate from us, to recognising that we too are part of Nature. All voices have a place in how we understand, relate, and make shared decisions within the living world.
Where I Am Today
I'm an intuitive interspecies communicator and advocate who's been working in this field since 2014.
That means I don't just communicate with other beings - I advocate for their voices to be recognised and heard.
Today, my work is most naturally aligned with supporting the inclusion of more-than-human voices and perspectives in the conversations and decisions that shape our shared future through intuitive interspecies communication.
The work found its shape through collaboration.
As I contributed to global initiatives, working alongside scientists, conservationists, academics, researchers, and IIC practitioners, and building relationships with Indigenous knowledge holders, I began to see the role I was actually holding.
I wasn't the scientist. I wasn't the academic. I wasn't the policy expert.
I am a bridge.
The one who can translate across different ways of knowing. Who can hold complexity without flattening it. Who can ask the uncomfortable questions and create space for others to sit with them.
I write. I convene. I ask questions. I hold space for complexity.
I see patterns others don't see. I hold relational threads across projects that seem unrelated. I can hold the tension between non-linear and linear knowing, allowing space for each to inform the other.
I work with academics, animal care professionals, scientists, conservationists, land stewards, lawyers, legal advocates, policymakers, and intuitive interspecies communication (IIC) practitioners - anyone navigating the intersection of human systems and more-than-human intelligence. Learn more about how I collaborate.
That's when I realised: this is the work I'm called to contribute.
I'm the founder of Interspecies Voices - a platform for interspecies advocacy, collaborative research, and systems change. Through it, I contribute to multiple global initiatives advancing the role of intuitive interspecies communication in decision-making, research, and policy.
I also work part-time with the Linda Tucker Foundation, sister organisation to the Global White Lion Protection Trust.
What Shapes My Perspective
Lived experience shapes everything I do.
I'm neurodivergent and navigating long COVID. Living with these realities has taught me to pay attention differently - to notice what's beneath the surface, to track sensation as intelligence, to feel the relational field that holds systems together.
These aren't obstacles to my work. They're part of how I see.
Living with limited energy teaches discernment - what actually matters, what's noise, where to place attention. Neurodivergence gives me pattern recognition across species, systems, and seemingly unrelated domains - seeing connections that often go unnoticed. Long COVID keeps me grounded in embodiment, in what's sustainable, in the difference between theory and lived reality.
My authority comes from ongoing communication with, and learning from, the more-than-human.
What Grounds My Work
Asking the questions that don't have easy answers.
The ones that make people uncomfortable. The ones that disrupt the paradigm quietly, so people don't realise the ground has shifted until they're already standing somewhere new.
Shifting the current decision-making paradigm.
Many of the structures through which decisions are made - across governance, conservation, research, and everyday life - remain human-centred. I'm committed to changing that. Not as an ideal. As an operational framework. As something we practise, not just philosophise about.
Creating connection without collapsing nuance.
Intuitive interspecies communication and science. Heart and head. The work isn't to make everyone agree - it's to create spaces where different intelligences can inform each other.
Building what's sustainable, not what's impressive.
I'm interested in work that endures because it's rooted in something real.
What Is Intuitive Interspecies Communication (IIC)?
Intuitive interspecies communication (IIC) is a natural, innate capacity shared by all animals, including humans, that allows for direct, two-way communication with the living world through intuitive, non-verbal means.
It involves engaging our intuitive awareness to receive and share thoughts, emotions, images, sensations, and messages with the more-than-human. Communication can take place across distances and doesn't require physical presence.
What IIC is NOT:
It’s not interpretation based on observation, species behaviour, or vocalisation.
It's not human-designed communication tools (augmentative devices, AI, machine learning, robotics).
It's not projecting human meaning onto other beings or ecosystems.
IIC is a process of mutual listening: one that seeks to move beyond control, assumption, and human-centred interpretation.
For a deeper exploration of how IIC works and how it's used in practice, see the full FAQ.