About Just Brit, Thanks
Just Brit, Thanks was created from more than a decade of working inside private homes and paying attention to what happens beneath the surface of domestic work.
I’m Brit. An artist, writer, nanny, postpartum doula, educator, and systems thinker.
My work has included newborn and postpartum care, long-term placements, travel roles, and work within high-profile households. Over the years, I began noticing that many of the hardest problems in domestic work were not simply about one difficult family, one nanny, or one agency.
They were structural.
A contract can be technically present while still leaving critical expectations unclear. A home can be a workplace while still being treated as though ordinary workplace protections don't apply. A caregiver can be deeply trusted and valued while still having little agency when circumstances change.
I became interested in those spaces between the people, the policies, the expectations, and the systems around them.
Just Brit, Thanks is where I bring that lived experience together with research, writing, observation, creativity, and a commitment to building better ways of thinking about domestic labor.
The Mission
The mission of Just Brit, Thanks is to strengthen the foundation of domestic labor by centering dignity, transparency, safety, autonomy, and accountability.
I believe domestic work deserves structures that recognize its complexity rather than relying on goodwill to hold everything together.
This work is rooted in:
Lived expertise: taking the knowledge gained from actually doing the work seriously.
Structural awareness: looking beyond individual conflicts to identify the systems, expectations, and power dynamics that create them.
Worker dignity: recognizing domestic workers as skilled professionals whose humanity does not disappear when they enter someone else's home.
Shared accountability: creating room for caregivers, families, agencies, and other participants to understand their responsibilities within the larger system.
Agency and autonomy: protecting a worker's ability to make informed decisions about their work, boundaries, safety, and ability to leave.
Creative and relational practice: recognizing that care work is intellectual, emotional, logistical, relational, and deeply skilled.
What I Do
I work at both the human level and the systems level.
I document and analyze patterns in domestic labor, develop practical frameworks for safer and more accountable private-home employment, and create resources that help people understand the realities of care work.
My work includes:
Researching domestic worker experiences and documenting patterns in workplace conditions, power, safety, autonomy, and accountability.
Developing Safety & Autonomy Standards™, a framework for thinking about structural safety and worker agency in private-home employment.
Writing and educating about domestic labor, caregiving, household dynamics, professional boundaries, and the realities of working inside private homes.
Supporting clearer professional relationships by examining contracts, expectations, boundaries, communication, and the structures surrounding employment.
Collaborating with caregivers, families, agencies, advocates, and industry leaders who are interested in creating stronger systems around domestic work.
This is not about teaching people how to tolerate dysfunctional systems better.
It is about understanding those systems well enough to build something better.
Why This Matters
Private homes are workplaces.
They are also intimate spaces, family environments, and places where enormous amounts of trust and responsibility can exist at the same time.
That combination makes domestic work different from many other forms of employment, but it does not make workers less deserving of clarity, safety, autonomy, or accountability.
A family can genuinely care about their nanny and still create an unhealthy working environment.
A caregiver can be deeply valued and still lack meaningful protections.
An agency can intend to help and still operate within structures that leave workers without adequate recourse.
Good intentions do not eliminate power.
And calling someone “family” does not change the fact that they are working.
The domestic workforce has historically carried enormous responsibility with relatively little structural protection. Black and Brown women, in particular, have long performed essential care and household labor within systems that have not always recognized the full value, skill, or humanity of that work.
This matters because better care cannot be built on unstable foundations.
Families deserve clarity.
Workers deserve dignity and agency.
Agencies deserve stronger frameworks.
And domestic labor deserves standards that reflect the reality of the work.
Just Brit, Thanks exists to help build those foundations.