I am a community engagement specialist with a proven track record of building programs, processes, and coalitions to support and grow self-reliant and interdependent communities no matter the scale. My mission is to empower people to define and create healthy spaces by strengthening the connections between the natural and human-created environments. Through the study of Tai Chi Chuan and Daoism I have developed contemplative practices to design and hold open spaces for creative problem solving to emerge.To do this work requires a unique set of skills - team building and project management skills, entrepreneurial vision and strategic planning, storytelling, patience and perseverance. Success comes in many sizes and from unexpected places. I work with emergent strategies rooted in biomimicry and design processes.My master's degree set the course of my life's work through a focus on the role of visual arts (landscape photography) in the establishment of the National Park System. We now know these images left out the people of these lands and there is much reparation work to be done. My thesis documented the role of visual communications in top down/bottom up processes to conserve Wild and Scenic River segments in New England and the Pacific Northwest. Specialties: Leadership, Retreat and Conference Designing, Writing/Storytelling, Management, Innovation, Contemplative Practices, Facilitation, Relationship Building, Strategic Planning, Mentoring, and Teaching. Areas of Particular Interest: Human and Planetary Health, Land Use and Conservation, Creative and Healing Arts, Education, Indigenous Cultures, Access and Equity, and Sacred Spaces.Mentors, Collaborators, and Areas of Study: Bayo Akomolafe, Joanna Macy, adrienne maree brown, Thomas Berry, Daoism, Classical Chinese Medicine, and Cosmology.