Post on education, leadership, and reflective capacity. I’m wondering whether schools and universities are stuck because we lack solutions, or because we haven’t built the adult capacity to think honestly together about the problems in front of us.

When organizations benefit from AI-assisted work but leave workers guessing about the rules, the risk falls on the person with the least power. Covert AI use is not just a conduct problem. It is a governance problem.

Make safe disclosure easier than secrecy.

An executive summary outlining the current state of youth mental health in Oregon, highlighting persistent poor outcomes despite improved access to services, recent Medicaid expansion changes affecting school-based supports, and policy recommendations focused on building district-level implementation capacity.

Are AI chatbots crossing dangerous lines?

As language models move into therapeutic spaces, we’re seeing alarming failures: from chatbots encouraging self-harm to reinforcing delusions. In my latest piece, I break down real-world cases, explain why these failures happen, and outline how we can build safer AI systems without sacrificing human care. Safety isn’t optional when vulnerable lives are involved.