I have an undergraduate degree in geography from the University of Texas - Austin, and a masters degree in urban and regional planning from Portland State University. 

I'm good at leading teams and projects. I'm a skilled facilitator, action-taker, and I've been a part of a lot of good work with many great people. Ask me about the mind/body program I developed for high school students, my work developing the Portland Mercado, creating a multi-cultural partnership for the development of Chehalem Ridge Nature Park, or facilitating the creation of the Racial Equity Action Plan for Metro Parks and Nature.

You can also review additional selected consulting work here.

When I work or partner with others, I operate from a place of compassion, clarity, and accountability. I don't believe in shame, blame, punishment, regret, or hard-feelings. I do believe in boundaries, reliability and owning and managing what's yours, and letting go of what's not yours to have or control. And critically, understanding the difference.

I believe that progress moves at the pace of trust and relationships, and sometimes going slow is going fast.

People bring me in when communication and trust has broken down and they are looking for holistic measures to improve how their teams work together that involve a willingness to take a hard look at how they've done things, now that they know the way out is not the same as they way they arrived there.

I work with people 1:1 when they are ready to make big changes, take leaps, and knuckle down deeply into their true, purposeful work (even if they are still trying to figure out what that is, exactly.)