Hey, I’m Connie 🐸 👋 I co-founded and operated East Fork, a B Corp certified manufacturer of ceramic dinnerware. My work in that organization is likely how you’ve come to be on my website, but I hope one day that fellow Tolkien-nerds find me through my LotR writing project. If you have, please tell me—it would make my week. I’d never intended to be a business owner and didn’t have any previous interest in clay before I started building East Fork with Alex. He was practically made of the stuff but my interest, if I’m being honest, was in getting Alex to think I was really smart and useful t keep around. I had a knack for storytelling that I already knew about but also, turns out, had a knack for business operations. Together with our partner, John Vigeland, and our ever-growing team, we turned a small Southern craft pottery studio into the most influential ceramic manufacturer in the United States.

I’m proud of the work I did at East Fork, but it was never really my work to do. In 2023 I left the organization so that Alex and I could try out being husband and wife without being business partners, because I so desperately wanted more time to make over-the-top lunches and romp in the forest with our girls, because building a business off the cult of one’s personality comes at a substantial cost to one’s soul, and because it was time to start

In About Me sections there’s always the expectation to identify yourself as one thing or another. The thing I’ve always most strongly identifited with inside but have had the hardest time identifying as outside is as a writer. Using words to get at God—which I understand to be the beating heart of all things living—is what feels as close to m. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, as was my Mom and Dad and Grandpa Joe and Grandpa Jim, and so I identify proudly as an Angeleno. June Gloom, Santa Anna Winds, the First Point Break at Surfrider Beach are carved in

I’ve identified as queer since I was fourteen but don’t make much of that publicly because the discourse-of-it-all is so fraught, but that lifelong identifier stands for all the mirrors and colorful doo-dads in the kaleidoscope through which I view the world. If you wanna talk about it, we can.

I identify as anti-capitalist, abolitionist, who believes . I . My understanding of how we , and what my role is in the work, are always evolving. Right now I’m.

If you’re here because you’r thinking about paying me real money to assess your brand and business fitness or help restructure your revenue model, I guess I can identify as systems thinker, .

I’m a Taurus Ascendant, Libra Sun, Aquarius Moon, TWriting,

I am invested in the pursuit of social and spritual liberation for all beings—which I belive to be one in the same. I beli

I value courage, curios

I’m a mother. Our daughters . I’m a failed Girl Scout leader. My own Girl Scout Troop #1688 M.S.S. Blue Madonna is still kicking,