Field Notes & Tools

This isn’t a blog.

This is a living space for the thoughts I don’t always get to say out loud in meetings, the lessons that hit me in the middle of doing the work, and the truths I keep seeing across Chicago’s workforce, reentry, and community ecosystem.

These are:

• letters to the people carrying the work,

• reflections on what’s not working and why,

• ideas we whisper in hallways but rarely write down,

• and the clarity that comes from watching programs, people, and systems try to heal in real time.

If something here feels familiar, or gives language to what you’ve been experiencing, then this space is doing what it’s supposed to do.

Welcome in.

-K