About

Amber and Molly.

We spent years watching what happens in a room when people are given a real reason to speak. Then we went looking for the form underneath it, so anyone could do it with intention.

Amber Espinosa

Co-founder

[Amber’s credentials go here. Degrees and where they’re from, licensure, roles held and for how long, restorative practice training and certifications, schools and organizations led, anything published or presented, and the boards or communities you serve. Three to five sentences.]

Molly Dandelet

Co-founder

[Molly’s credentials go here. Degrees and where they’re from, roles held and for how long, restorative practice training and certifications, design and brand work, anything published or presented, and the boards or communities you serve. Three to five sentences.]

Where we’ve led this work

[Schools, organizations, and communities you’ve worked with, and what you did there. Names alone are enough to start.]

Where this comes from

Education is where we met.

Restorative practice is a spark, not the source. It’s where we practiced the pattern and watched what it did to a room, and it gave us the circle we still use today. One honored shoulder among many.

The impulse behind gather& predates both of our careers. It has been building in us for a lifetime, as humans, long before we were colleagues.

We both burned out inside systems that still assume a woman’s job is to abandon herself for the people around her. What was missing was a form: a simple, repeatable way to take what we’re already doing and make it count.

The gather& ampersand mark.
The ampersand is the part that keeps going.

That’s what Molly and I are building, and we can’t finish it alone. Take it, use it in your own life, and tell us what it becomes in your hands. Amber