Sustainable Fish Asia Technical Support (SuFiA TS) activity supports the coordination of efforts across regional marine resource management institutions whose mandates relate to fisheries management and marine conservation across the Indo-Pacific. Portfolio includes illegal fishing, fair labor best practices, and human rights and with a focus on improved integration of interdisciplinary work and coordination of intergovernmental actors in this space. Provides technical assistance, delivering regional technical support products and services requested by intergovernmental agencies.

Thesis: Informing practical pathways to combat forced labor in the offshore commercialfishing industry: A research agenda for a transdisciplinary task force.

Research: Identifying practical policy pathways to effectively combat extreme labor abuses in fisheries on the high seas: A comprehensive analysis of discrete disciplinary tools and rationale.

• Participated, and supported faculty, in running DKI-APCSS’s Comprehensive Maritime Security Course as well as its Comprehensive Security Response to Terrorism Course. • Aided development of outreach content - a videocast recording in a maritime security series called Take20.• Aided in building resource list and background on Southeast Asia’s maritime ecosystems and threats to traditional livelihoods with focus on shared regional security threats involving food security, natural resource depletion, labor abuses, forced migration, and climate change.

• Self taught climber and trimmer in the nation’s second most dangerous industry with zero mishaps.• Coconut Palm Tree management services utilizing various climbing techniques, focused on coconut harvesting and property/ life/ limb danger removal. Disposal of coconut waste in an environmentally sound manner.• Monetizing residential coconut harvests, normally a discarded landscaping by-product, through open-air farmer’s markets sales and subscription client model.• Establishing a robust client account book by branding a ‘female small business owner in overwhelmingly male industry’ word-of-mouth marketing campaign trading on reliable, affordable results.

• Successfully leveraged institutional, corporate, and private sponsors; doubled annual charitable funds raised.

• Planned and directed market penetration strategies, including: Public outreach and awareness campaigns, industry education programs, fundraising activity, and event management.• Built collaborative networks across NGOs to influence legislation and regulations, including lobbying efforts that protect Hawaii’s economy and environment by banning single-use plastic, prohibiting polystyrene, and lowering noise pollution - Hawaii SB522, SB11, and SB376, as well as Honolulu City & County Bill 40.

RepRisk business intelligence empowers companies and financial institutions to proactively assess ESG issues that may present financial, reputational and compliance risks.RepRisk's multilingual analysts monitor controversial issues on a daily basis to allow clients to identify and assess the ESG issues that may present financial, reputational, and ethical risks across an unlimited universe of companies and projects. RepRisk® is a web-based tool used by investment professionals, financial institutions, supply chain managers, multinational corporations and compliance managers, and includes a variety of features enabling clients to monitor risk trends over time, create customized watch lists, tailor alert services and more. The tool plays an integral role in increasing transparency and ensuring compliance with internal and international standards, thereby helping reduce risk exposure.My role:• Assisted clients with ESG risk mitigation strategy development using proprietary intelligence tools with focus on the mining, healthcare, and asset management sectors.• Worked collaboratively with Fortune 500 and leading multinational firms to raise ESG and reputational risk awareness, resulting in one of the largest Middle Eastern asset management funds to be the first in the region to adopt Western ESG risk standards to prioritize forced labor issues within their portfolio.

• Dual-hatted to create internal solutions to improve a struggling department, resulting in a 1,000% increase in revenue in under 3 months by identifying tailored areas of growth and developing team sales techniques. • Led, trained, and managed 6 international sales agents, resulting in increased profitability of existing products to support regional market expansion and advance business objectives.

• Joined startup enterprise to build strategic planning, process development, and product integration resulting in business sales/partnership agreements outstripping sales capacity and maximizing B2B value-added relationships.

• Silver Medal, Twin Tip Class (Women’s) – Kiteboard Tour Asia 2013.• During the five-year period 2010 to 2014, over 300 days annually at-sea operating in navigable waters.• Assisted in organizing and documenting Kiteboard Tour Asia (KTA), the first sanctioned Asian Kitesurfing event.• Superior circuit performance resulting in equipment sponsorship by Liquid Force Kiteboarding.• Tacking across the sand bars and open ocean from India to Sri Lanka, trekking in rarely traveled waters to exceed my own personal ambitions as a strategy coach and expeditionary traveler.• Guided the first kiteboarding team in Asia through sustainment and KTA events resulting in zero safety discrepancies resulting in Gold and Silver Medals, Freestyle as well as two Silver Medals, Twin Tip Class.

• Over 270 days at-sea during 3 commercial Sockeye Salmon seasons, delivering high quality fresh fish.• Primary contract negotiator and market delivery specialist - guiding asset acquisitions and operation expansions.• No significant U.S. Coast Guard safety mishaps, as well as zero Alaska Department of Fish & Game violations while operating in 5 distinct watershed management districts.

• Multiple credits in lifestyle magazines. Available upon request.

-Devised new client acquisition strategy-Developed targeted marketing material-Oversaw web-site development-Planned market strategy and penetration-Involved in negotiations-Planned and executed launch - marketing material, web-site, press releases-Provided recruitment solutions-Consulted on, and executed, strategic business relationships

• Involved from beta testing to writing the training manual for cutting edge hydrographic mapping software, used by the U.S. Navy Submarine Force and other defense elements.