As a lighting professional, Ms. Thornton explores the boundary between business and design to deliver a balanced, efficient, and meaningful solution to clients. Her background gives her a unique and integrated approach to encouraging the creation of more sustainable buildings and communities. She strives to facilitate the business case for design practices to clients and customers throughout a project's development. Her professional career develops solutions and energy conservation that incorporate creative design solutions that benefit the project’s intent and performance. Ms. Thornton manages and supports projects, as an entrepreneur team member she can function independently while contributing to the growth strategy of a company, calmly juggling multiple projects at once, switching gears readily, and furthering relationships.Previously: Community organizing to include social action, grassroots coalition building, and democratic/legislative processes; familiarity with a wide range of participatory approaches and applications; including skills in participatory listening, speaking, dialog, and group decision-making; emerging synthesis of concerns in the fields of psychology, ecology and the environmental movement; Awareness and understanding of the ecosystem of the Pacific Northwest and native plant identification skills; Field of systems thinking, especially as applied to understanding the dynamic nature of change in human systems.