Hi there! I'm a marketing and communications professional who's allergic to being put in boxes. I'm a lifelong climate activist, a passion first kindled in the Colorado foothills and exercised through religious composting rituals and bike evangelism. I'm a science communicator with an emotional streak, always looking for the most compelling way to distill data into drama. And I remember (and romanticize) life before the internet, yet am obsessed with using rapidly-changing digital tools to reach audiences and move them to action. It's these traits, core to who I am as a person and a professional, that led me here: to evolving the conservation around climate change and fighting against its impacts armed with the science, my humanity, and a good story.

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I grew up romping around the foothills of northern Colorado, and my parents instilled in me a passion for all things wild, a healthy balance of creativity and scientific thought, and a desire to fuel my creativity through the natural environment around me. This unique upbringing led me to my studies in journalism and media communication and environmental affairs at Colorado State University, and later to a full-time role as the multimedia communications manager for the CSU College of Natural Sciences.

 

Now, as a communications manager for Western Resource Advocates — a non-profit fighting climate change and its impacts in the Interior West — I support WRA through integrated marketing and communication campaigns, earned media strategy, and advocacy communications. I collaboratively guide and execute a broad range of public relations activities targeted to influence key decision makers to act in support of land conservation, transportation electrification, and clean energy priorities in seven states across the West.

 

My long-term goal is to uplift the nation's top climate, clean energy, and conservation-driven institutions through strategic advocacy, technical and creative writing, advanced digital tactics, and an intersectional lens.