Hyperlocal community platform
My Panda
A hyperlocal task platform that keeps dollars circulating inside neighborhoods — paying neighbors for the care, errands, and small repairs that hold a block together.
Community Architect · Founder · Speaker
You were created to shine.I help clear the path.
Humans need each other to thrive. I spend my life creating the systems and communities that make that possible again.
"Rooted where I was planted. Growing what wasn't there."
The Work
Three ventures, one thesis.
AI resilience training
Soft Edge
AI resilience training that strengthens the human edge of teams and leaders inside organizations — so they thrive alongside AI, not despite it.
Nonprofit
Single Mom Founders
A nonprofit pairing micro-grants, mentorship, wellness, and wealth-building for the founders who carry their companies and their kids on the same shoulders.
"I didn't need better advice. I didn't need better planning. I needed a village. So I built one."
— Tamara V. Lucas
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Speaking
Talks that travel well.
Keynotes for conferences, leadership offsites, and rooms wrestling with the future of work, community, and care.
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Community as Infrastructure
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The Invisible Economy
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The Threshold
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The Mom Founder Thesis
The Founder
A social worker who learned to build.
I started as a single mom in Atlanta, watching my neighborhood do the labor that nobody paid for — the watching, the lending, the showing up.
Then I went to social work school, then to Techstars, and somewhere in between I realized the same instincts that make a good neighbor make a fierce founder. I'm building the infrastructure I always needed.
Read my full story →