Professional Highlights

Speculative Fiction Writer (2025–present)

The Alis Switch
• Completed manuscript for a speculative fiction novel; currently in editorial revision ahead of agent querying.

Executive Director (2023-present)

Whidbey Environmental Action Network

• Leading a decades-old environmental nonprofit into a collaborative and impactful new chapter to protect the wellbeing of people and wild spaces.

• Policy advocacy, civic education, coalition building, and strategic litigation to defend ecosystems and communities.

Senior Donor Organizer (2022-23)

Showing Up for Racial Justice

• Helped resource a national network of groups and individuals organizing for racial and economic justice.

• Challenged racist systems and built political power rooted in solidarity through a race/class analysis.

Co-Executive Director (2020-22); Communications Manager (2013-20)

Whidbey Institute

• Led an educational nonprofit delivering life-changing programming for youth and adults.

• Founded the inaugural Intersectional Justice Conference — a first-of-its-kind gathering at the intersection of animal rights, racial justice, and feminism.


Language Arts ALE Teacher (2011-13)

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.

Education

BA in English, Summa Cum Laude, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, June 2003

In progress: MSL in Environment, Climate, and Energy Law, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR , graduating 2027

Additional Professional Experience

Editor, Timber Framers Guild, Alstead, NH, 2007-14

• Developed trade association’s communications, created newsletters, wrote executive communications, developed reports, produced marketing collateral, performed 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. 

• Self published In the Morning, a children's picture book with Welsh illustrator Allison Fennell.


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 processed organic food for market.

Leadership & Community Service 

Member, Habitat Strategic Initiative Advisory Team, WA Dept. of Natural Resources and WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife (a cross-agency body advising on Puget Sound habitat recovery), 2025 Cohort

Member, Affordable Housing Fund Advisory Committee, Whidbey Community Foundation, April 2023–June 2025


Board of Directors / Legislative Representative, South Whidbey School District, Dec. 2020–present


Member, Coalition for Racially Diverse Cohousing, CoHo US, 2023-24 Cohort


Communications/Graphic Design Volunteer, Northwest Animal Rights Network, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Racial Justice Learning Group, and more, 2015-22


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