Hi, I’m Adam, and at Creative Collaborations, I work with LGB, Queer and Trans people to realize a deeper understanding of how our experiences of marginalization, exclusion and inequality both inform and deform ways of relating to our intellectual and creative activity; to our work, career, and professional lives; to leadership, parenting, and educating; to our families, friends, and communities; to our political and community work; and to ourselves — so as to pursue, genuinely, our authentic aspirations and goals.

Cultivating and supporting creativity in the broadest sense – in the arts, in our lives and careers, in scholarly and intellectual work, in our relationships and communities – is the center of my practice.

For over 25 years, I have been coaching, teaching, and mentoring those of us who have been differently marginalized, excluded and oppressed, into our creativity and toward our aspirations and goals. I draw on my own experience growing up gay in a rural, working-class community, coming of age at the height of AIDS hysteria in the U.S. I know the feeling of being hated, feared and dismissed, including by the people closest to me, including by my self. I know what it means to have an experience of marginalization, exclusion and violence shape me.  My life experience is not, in itself, adequate to caring and critical coaching, but it opened me to a lifetime of intersectional, feminist study, scholarship, teaching, leadership, collaboration and coaching dedicated to supporting and sustaining the goals and aspirations of differently marginalized, excluded and oppressed people. Across my adult life, I have tested feminist, intersectional theory within the real-world practices of teaching, collaborating and coaching, while simultaneously holding these practices accountable to intersectional, liberatory theory.