Modern Maiasaura.
Hi - I’m Modern Maiasaura and I’m a voice for change.
I’m a real life human in my 40’s with a husband and 3 (totally fascinating) kids. I serve a (bossy) bearded dragon, my cat Norman …. and a super-strength set of core values - which are mainly around: respect, transparency, and making preventable harm an expectation we stand behind.
I’m focusing my work on connecting with resources that I can share that offer support and solutions around human rights and civic strategy for enforcing accountability for normalized systemic practices that cause visible, preventable, life-altering harm every day.
I do my best to share businesses I support and how they can benefit individuals or groups or entire segments of people. I currently do this primarily through social media (you can find my links in the title-bar) and at community events, such as markets, when I have the opportunity to participate with a sponsor booth.
Some examples of preventable system harm are:
The opiate crisis & local homelessness - solutions that balance the needs of all involved.
Workplace Harm - not the overt harm that is protected quickly by L&I, or that gets acknowledged by the employer. The normalized demoralization of an employee, and the burden placed on employees to protect themselves, especially when they report the harm.
Invisible illness. Something that is not regarded as serious - by society, by employers, and by much of the medical system. While awareness grows, so does skepticism and judgement.
There are real barriers for people with physical and mental disabilities - which feeds all of the issues I’m passionate about.,
Whether they have been diagnosed yet or not does not change the experience of someone who is living in a body or mind that experiences life differently. Determining someone’s value because of traits that you deem unacceptable, while contributing to the environment initiating them, is a blind spot with little-to=no accessable protection.
I’m interested a system where educating each other and ourselves helps us build balance rather than rigid competition and compliance.
What am I doing right now?
I am focused onrecovery for myself and my family. This year has been hard on us in many ways, including health information that changes how we approach things.
I am involved in my local community through the local chamber of commerce, civic engagement, small business networking, and by representing Modern Maiasaura and the idea that systemic harm is truly preventable by the choices we make.
I invite everyone into my network and LOVE to connect people and resources that need or want to be connected.
I write! Check out my field notes, it’s a big jumble of real-life, thought leadership, tiny dinosaury&planty- stuff, Mythical Non-Fiction is how I explain the world: by turning passing moments into lore..
I also sing Not professionally or anything, but I used to be the token house-party-corner-singer back in my hayday. Here’s Snow Hat if you’d like a taste.
It’s taken a lot of courage for me to share my music. I miss my best friend, who was taken in November last year. In every iteration of our friendship, I sang, and she connected with it. I hope that other people connect with it, too. Music is such a beautiful language.
I utilize social media to spread information and pose open ended questions about topics and local goings-on that are backed by the values of Modern Maiasaura: respect, humanity, and making preventable harm an expectation we all stand behind.