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Advocacy & Investigation

Institutions are not designed to make your path clear, and what they hide is often findable. I provide the strategic advocacy and investigative research to move with clarity, build a credible record, and understand exactly what happened.

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What I bring is deep knowledge of coercive control, institutional betrayal, trauma responses, and how systems fail survivors — combined with years of experience building systems that analyzed institutional behavior at scale. I understand how institutions fail, how records are created and hidden, and that what looks opaque from outside has clear patterns once you know where to look.

Most survivors face a choice: hire an attorney (expensive, constrained to legal strategy), or research alone (time-consuming, easy to miss critical patterns). I sit in between. Fluent in institutional documentation, legal discovery, evidentiary standards, and the trauma-informed frameworks that explain institutional behavior. I work for people who need the evidence and the navigation, not people who need representation.

Institutions rely on your not knowing how they work. I do. I understand your rights, which processes produce results and which are designed to exhaust you, and how to document your situation so it speaks for itself. My approach is trauma-informed: paced for your safety, grounded in what actually happened, built on your expertise about your own situation.

I don’t do surveillance, trespass, or illegal access. What I do: research publicly documented information, identify patterns in institutional behavior, help you navigate institutional channels strategically, and synthesize findings into evidence courts and investigators believe.

Attorney, journalist, or organization? See Investigations & Due Diligence.

AI and the Acceleration of Coercive Control

The tactics that define coercive control — evidence tampering, impersonation, institutional capture, the systematic rewriting of reality — are now AI-accelerated. Fabricated evidence that once required weeks of sustained effort takes hours. Impersonation campaigns are scalable. Institutions already skilled at exhausting complainants can automate that exhaustion.

If your adversary has technical access or AI literacy and you don’t, the power imbalance deepens. This service operates with that threat model built in. Documentation strategy accounts for AI-resistant evidence formats and timestamped records. If there is reason to believe an AI-literate adversary is involved, we design for it explicitly — not as a hypothetical, but as a constraint shaping every decision about what to record, where to store it, and how to present it.

This work is confidential. It is not therapy — though I can help you find that too.

Engagement Models

Hourly for advocacy sessions, research, and strategy. Project-based for scoped investigations with clear deliverables. Retained monthly for ongoing advisory or support work.

For survivors, advocates, and individuals in active institutional disputes: sliding scale rates and pro-bono capacity are available. Reach out directly.

Survivors navigating hostile or unresponsive institutions — sexual assault, abuse, intimate partner violence, institutional betrayal, workplace misconduct, academic retaliation, coercive control, and trafficking. Also: attorneys, organizations, veterans, workers, and whistleblowers who need someone fluent in both institutional documentation and evidence research.

Public records research and FOIA requests

Background and identity verification using public sources

Institutional documentation and record reconstruction

Digital research and evidence gathering

Timeline analysis and pattern identification

Legal document review and institutional history

Grievance procedures, Title IX, and workplace rights

Coercive control documentation and safety planning

Records for survivors, veterans, and institutional survivors

Initial consultation: Free (45 min)

Research discovery call: Free (30 min)

Travel surcharge: +$25/hr for in-person outside Minneapolis metro

Retainer discount: 10% off 20+ hours booked upfront

Survivor sliding scale: Available upon request — no one turned away for inability to pay

Response time: Within 48 hours

Situation Assessment

A structured conversation to understand what you are dealing with, what documentation exists, and what channels — formal or informal — are available to you.

Documentation Strategy

Guidance on what to record, how to record it, and how to organize it. A well-constructed record is often the difference between being believed and being dismissed.

Institutional Navigation

Help understanding grievance procedures, Title IX, union processes, HR, academic ombudspersons, and how to engage each strategically — including when not to engage.

Public Records & FOIA

Federal and state records requests, vital records, court documents, institutional files. I handle the complexity so you don't have to.

Background & Verification

Public-source research on individuals and organizations — employment, education, addresses, litigations, regulatory history, ownership.

Digital & Document Research

Trace digital footprints, analyze documents for authenticity and patterns, reconstruct institutional timelines from available evidence.

Record & Correspondence Review

Analysis of existing documentation, email threads, or timelines to identify gaps, patterns, and leverage points.

Report & Expert Documentation

Findings synthesized into a coherent narrative with citations. Attorney-ready, trauma-informed, and built to hold up under legal and institutional scrutiny.

Accompanied Sessions

Available to accompany you virtually to meetings, hearings, or conversations where having a witness and advisor shifts what the other party is willing to do.

Initial Consultation Free (45 min)

A no-commitment conversation to understand your situation and determine whether I can be useful to you. No referral required.

Advocacy Sessions Sliding scale — $0 to $75/hr

Rate set by your circumstances. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Ask during the consultation.

Record & Document Review $50/hr

Structured review of existing correspondence, institutional records, or chronologies, with written notes returned to you.

Research & Records Gathering $125–$200/hr

FOIA requests, public records retrieval, document collection, background research. Rate depends on complexity and jurisdictional scope.

Analysis & Report $150–$225/hr

Synthesize findings into a coherent narrative. Pattern analysis, timeline construction, institutional documentation. Output is attorney-ready.

Ongoing Retainer Contact me

Long-form projects or ongoing advisory. Monthly retainer with priority access, regular updates, and adaptive strategy as findings emerge.

First consultation is always free. Send a brief description of your situation — all inquiries are confidential. I respond within 48 hours.

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Not legal advice · Not mental health advice · For educational and informational purposes only · Mention of any individual, organization, or institution does not imply their endorsement or approval