The Community Trash

Wonderful question! I’m a mermicorn approaching her 40s and I’ve been in the community space since I was running blogs, RP servers, and World of Warcraft Guilds with my friends in the early 2000s (yes, those do count!). I’ve built communities for Xbox, a retired conversational AI named @ZoChats, and Microsoft Edge. I have superpowers others don’t as an autistic woman with ADHD – I can navigate multiple cliques, masking to fit in like a fabulous chameleon, and build genuine relationships across different technical levels and age groups. I specialize in customer advocacy and sentiment analyzing, ensuring people are properly heard by the right stakeholders and driving meaningful changes in products based on user feedback. You’ll find that I post mostly about how to build communities, the good and bad of it all, and why “community management” is an umbrella term that really deserves an entire cross-collaboration team dedicated to it. I’ll occasionally post about my experiences as an autistic woman in a neurotypical world not built to support the neurospicy, something that isn’t talked about often in general.

I am a mother, married for 15+ years to an partner, a fur mom to a scaredy cat German Shepard and an orange tabby who thinks he’s a dog, and the entire house is neurodiverse. I am a coffee snob (not-so-hot take: Starbucks is trash), a plant witch befriending the neighborhood murder of crows, a gamer, and apparently now a blogger (in a large part to friends who encouraged me to talk about my expertise).