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Leading incredible teams of designers through ideation, concept development and prototype testing. Advising clients across consumer goods, tech, healthcare, and education on using human-centered design to rapidly experiment, understand customers, and generate new growth offerings

Bringing ambitious innovation ideas to life by designing how they will improve people's lives and unlock new business opportunities.

thredUP is the world's largest online thrift store inspiring a new generation to think secondhand first. I designed and tested new features to make buying secondhand a habit.

STRAT500 Competitive Environmental Strategy EAS533 Negotiation & Mediation Skills

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Engaged 100+ external stakeholders including labor unions, community groups, and policymakers to build consensus and surface new ideas for the University to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040

Advised Carhartt's design team on strategies to mainstream innovation and innovation mindsets across the company.

Developed retail innovation programs like Under Armour's first circular re-commerce and reverse logistics program for global stores and distribution centers.

Nuclear waste is a notorious innovation dead-zone. We built an award-winning cleantech solution that harnesses heat from nuclear waste to turn wastewater into fuel/fertilizer. We participated in top clean-tech accelerators and won several international venture competitions. After years of iteration and experimentation, we sunsetted Sustainium and.

Created new product marketing and innovation strategies to improve the customer experience on MSN, Bing, and Microsoft News to help people access the news they want and need in new ways.

In partnership with former Unilever CEO Paul Polman, identified strategies for pre-competitive business collaboration to address global crises with insights from dozens of systems change/leadership experts.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Developed Etsy's first sustainable packaging strategy affecting 2M+ platform sellers. Quantified first-ever packaging carbon footprint across the company, engaged new suppliers, analyzed customer insights data, and identified key carbon/waste reduction strategies across the supply chain

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Helped drive consensus between multi-industry groups through mediation and strategic planning. Managed and launched coalitions to drive progress in agriculture, big data, clean energy, climate policy

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Meridian is a mission-driven consultancy that helps clients and partners develop and implement solutions to complicated, often controversial problems—big and small, global and local. Meridian specializes in consensus-building, alternative conflict resolution, and coalition-building.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Generated new university and retail business accounts for the first carbon-negative coffee company and helped adapt company policies on packaging, building certification, and more.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Youngest panelist at the 2014 IUCN Conference on International Environmental Law, presenting original research on implications of nuclear waste storage on US tribal reservations.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Activities and Societies: VP, Design+Business Club & VP, Net Impact Club Finalist- Michigan Business Challenge (Entrepreneurial Venture.

Master Of Science - Ms, Sustainable Systems & Environmental Policy

Dean's Scholar Co-President: Art Eco Collective

Bachelor’S Degree, Environmental Studies, Political Science, Legal Studies

Education record

Panama: Tropical Ecology, Marine Ecology And Biodiversity Conservation

Immersive study in tropical ecosystem management and human-environment conflict, while living and working with indigenous communities.