Insight. Experience. Commitment.

My interest in conservation began as a kid exploring parks around my hometown of Portland, which led me to specialize in environmental studies and policy in college and graduate school. From serving as a volunteer coordinator at the Grand Canyon Trust and Friends of the Columbia Gorge, to facilitating collaborative forestry groups in Alaska, to leading the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition, I’ve learned that I like bringing people together. To do good things. And solve complex problems.

History

• Executive Director of the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition 2015 - 2020.

• Facilitator for the Wallowa Whitman Forest Collaborative (now Northern Blues) from 2015-2016.

• Nearly a decade supporting sustainable forestry on the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska for The Nature Conservancy, Wilderness Society, and the Forest Service.

• Appointed by Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to serve on the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLR) Federal Advisory Committee in 2020; elected Chair by Committee members.

• Appointed by Secretary Vilsack to the 2012 Forest Planning Rule Federal Advisory Committee in 2016, and the original CFLR Committee in 2010.

• Masters in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

• Addicted to all things soccer.