My pals & acquaintances know I am dedicated to and passionate about many things outside my creative pursuits: hot sauces, rewatching all the Screams every year, distance running (sometimes badly) & harm reduction. I have lost too many friends to overdose, and am in awe of the people and comrades in my life and community who work tirelessly to stop these preventable deaths. I am honored whenever I have a chance to work alongside them to distribute materials or to help raise some money for this cause.
In early May, I get to combine two of my favorite interests. I'm running Broad Street again, and this time I will fundraise for the Everywhere Project. They're one of Philly’s brightest harm reduction resources and we are so lucky they're here.
The Everywhere Project offers community outreach in many forms: overdose reversal supplies and training, as well as food, clothing, and other necessary resources that help our neighbors live! Especially under the current and embarrassingly misinformed mayoral politics that have recklessly endangered the wellbeing of people who use drugs in our city (and public health and safety more broadly), it’s more important than ever to give money and time to the groups who are getting lifesaving materials on the ground.
Please join me in raising some needed cash for the Everywhere Project, and take comfort in the knowledge that I will be BARELY suffering on the downhill 10-mile slope of Broad Street I’m lucky enough to run again this year. THANK YOU! I promise to take some running selfies that are as bad as these two while I listen to my toxic man gym rock!
