Conducting practical research and development activities to find innovative solutions for decarbonization challenges at rural electric utilities. Working on equitable access to Beneficial Electrification, Renewable Energy, and Demand-side Management for low- to moderate-income community members.

Solar Forward is an outreach program from Solar Energy International (SEI). Solar Forward helps communities kickstart solar markets by empowering local leaders with SEI’s industry-leading solar expertise and a toolkit full of everything needed to implement a Solarize program. Solar Forward promotes holistic solar market development through education, workforce development, and increased solar accessibility.

• Research environmentally sustainable policy and technical solutions for the intermountain west – energy, waste diversion, and mine reclamation• Coordinate research on circular economy variables for feasibility studies – supply chains and market potential • Write op-eds, reports, and policy primers for communicating policy topics to lay persons• Direct interns’ and associates’ projects• Development team member – find and secure funding for projects

Solarize Gunnison County, Program Coordinator, Summer 2018 - Spring 2019• Organize and implement a group buy-in program for residential and commercial solar installations• Coordinate a team of five to improve the economics of solar in a rural community• Organize and administer energy efficiency and energy conservation education

• Engaged 29 undergraduate students on environmental justice topics

• Edited and tutored graduate students in writing • Facilitated writing workshops

• Taught sustainability curriculum• Managed the website and social media

• Outdoor, science educator• Re-designed and updated the food waste curriculum• Developed lessons, curriculum, and materials for multi-level student learning• Tailored lesson plans to meet the needs of visiting schools with an emphasis on research, exploration, or environmental issues• Taught a wide variety of curricula, including weather and climate science, earth science, forest ecology, aquatic ecology, and snow science to visiting schools• Facilitated team building exercises and constructive discussion regarding challenges

• Lived and worked in a rural village in Guinea, West Africa creating sustainable programs that supported the three goals of the Peace Corps Guinea Agro-Forestry Program, to increase agricultural production; to promote agribusiness skills; and to improve natural resource management. o Coordinated a USAID grant and managed funds for a school garden, used to teach high school and middle school students about select permaculture principleso Started two tree nurseries fostering over 1,000 trees• Taught English to 70, 11th grade students for the Spring 2014 semestero Developed interactive lessons, focused on in-class participation with the aim of improving English literacy and proficiency• Worked on the Peace Corps Guinea Literacy Committeeo Collaborated with fellow Peace Corps volunteers to create miniature books in French and English to promote literacy, literacy rights, and libraries in Guineao Organized volunteers around the Conakry half-marathon to advertise “World Book Day”• Achieved an advanced level of competency in French, effectively used French to communicate in project work