Whidbey Environmental Action Network
• Leading a 38 year old environmental nonprofit into a more collaborative and impactful chapter to protect the wellbeing of people and wild spaces
• Policy advocacy and coalition building in and beyond Island County
• Fundraising, communications, and board and staff development
Showing Up for Racial Justice
• Helped resource a national network of groups and individuals organizing for racial and economic justice.
Whidbey Institute
• Led an educational nonprofit delivering life-changing programming for youth and adults.
• Participated in a successful capital campaign, raising $4.5 million and doubling facilities for hosting educational programming
BA, English, Suffolk University, Boston, MA 2003 Summa cum laude
Board of Directors / Legislative Representative, South Whidbey School District, Dec. 2020–present
Member, Coalition for Racially Diverse Cohousing, CoHo US, 2023-24 Cohort
Board Member, Northwest Animal Rights Network, 2022
Communications/Graphic Design Volunteer, Northwest Animal Rights Network; Northwest Immigrant Rights Project; Racial Justice Learning Group; and others; 2015-22
Founding Host, Teen Art Club @ Create Space, 2020
Board Member at Large, Amnesty International, Suffolk U Chapter, 2002–03
Vice President and Faculty Lecturer Liaison, Eta Upsilon Chapter of the National English Honors Society, 2002-03
Mount Baker Academy/Mount Baker School District's Alternative Learning Environment
• Taught Language Arts, including English literature, journalism, and story writing, to middle school students as a non-certificated instructor in a parent partnership program
Editor, Timber Framers Guild, Alstead, NH, 2007-14
• Developed trade association’s communications, creating newsletters and writing executive communications, reports, marketing collaterals, branding, and graphic design, and managed national events as on-site coordinator.
Freelance Journalist, 2007–13
• Wrote news, poetry, and feature articles for newspapers and national magazines and pitched story ideas.
Prepress Editor, Lithtex Northwest, Bellingham, WA, June 2008–May 2013
• Designed graphics, edited magazines and brochures, and imposed manuscripts for digital and offset printing.
Organic Farm Hand, Molly's Island Garden, Langley, WA 2004-05
Weeded, pruned, harvested, and packed organic tomatoes and greens
Florist and Retail Nursery Associate, Lombardi Nurserymen, Boston, MA 2002-03
Created floral arrangements, stocked and maintained flowers and plants, and sold plants and merchandise to the public
Ally Engagement, Network for Edwork, January 2022
Creative Facilitation 1, Partners for Youth Empowerment, June 2021
Holistic Resistance: Disrupting Our Whiteness, April—July 2020
Conflict Resolution: Clearing the Stream, Awakening Life, February 2020
The Work of Racial Justice: Deepening Capacity, Leading from the Heart, May 2017
Undoing Institutional Racism, Peoples Institute Northwest, December 2016
Fostering Real Opportunities Culture Coaching, 2015-16
Certified Language of Spaces Coach, May 2019
Powers of Leadership Adaptive Leadership Series, Whidbey Institute, 2014-15
Restorative Systems: Nonviolent Communications, The Cultural Catalyst Network, July 2015