SIP's Founder

Windy has never in her adult life stopped devoting her energy towards both her family and her organizing. At 18, she became a mother. By the time she was 25 her experience-driven local community organizing work was nationally recognized for both its effectiveness in harnessing community power and its passionate testament to the power of love. After moving to the Washington D.C. area as a union organizer she found herself struggling with depression, working long hours away from her family, and losing sight of her goals as a whole human-being. Her organizing suffered along with her diminished sense of self. Through mentorship and thoughtful self-reflection she came to a new and healthy balance in her life. She went on to learn new work skills as a researcher on the national level at the esteemed research service, the Food and Allied Service Trades Department (FAST) of the AFL-CIO. Her volunteer work, meanwhile, always focused on her immediate community – winning community victories against bad landlords, for instance, and often successfully reaching out to organizer peers struggling under complex relationships with Justice, Love, and Family.  She developed a reputation as a mentor to new organizers and a trusted friend to peers, a valuable member of the community, and a fiercely loving mother. Windy is a success story in building both an inner life and a successful life’s work. Her passion remains organizers and our culture. Windy is a veteran organizer of 12 years and has committed to be an organizer for life.

Immediately before founding SIP she simultaneously homeschooled her older son, headed a group house, and served as the Director of Research for the Prewitt Organizing Fund.

She currently lives in Greenbelt, Maryland with her husband, two sons, and cat.