Professional Highlights
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 and coalition building in and beyond Island County.
• Fundraising, communications, and board and staff development.
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); Comms. Manager (2013-20)
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.
Education
BA, English, Suffolk University, Boston, MA 2003 Summa cum laude
Leadership & Community Service
Member, Affordable Housing Fund Advisory Committee, Whidbey Community Foundation, April 2023–present
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
Language Arts ALE Instructor (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.
Additional Professional Experience
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.
Trainings Completed
Strengthening Tribal Consultation, Office of Native Education and Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, April 2024
Ally Engagement, Network for Edwork, Jan. 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, Feb. 2020
The Work of Racial Justice: Deepening Capacity, Leading from the Heart, May 2017
Undoing Institutional Racism, Peoples Institute Northwest, Dec. 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
