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Portland, Oregon, Us

I lead Columbia Sportswear's (CSC) sustainability programs across the CSC portfolio of brands, including prAna, SOREL and Mountain Hardwear. This includes 1) climate target work, 2) environmental regulatory affairs, 3) traceability and chain of custody management and 4) ESG reporting.Activities include:• Leading Climate/ Science Based Targets work at CSC which includes target structure recommendation in accordance with SBTi guidance, reduction roadmaps and resource identification for decarbonization work in areas like renewable energy, sustainable materials and design efficiency. • Co-leading CSC ESG Executive Committee focused on corporate governance of ESG matters. • Overseing team that monitors relevant environmental regulations like CSRD, CSDD, French AGEC Law, potential SEC Climate Legislation, recently passed CA climate disclosure laws, etc and preparing CSC for compliance.• Overseeing annual green house gas inventory measurement for Scope 3, including partnering with financial compliance team in development of controls to support future assurance requirements. • Oversee and participate in a variety of ESG related reports and related capability building including annual Impact Report, SASB disclosure, Conflict Minerals Report, UNSDG mapping, TCFD preliminary work, Double Materiality Assessment preliminary work, etc.• Consulting and supporting product sustainability go-to-market initiatives (such as Columbia's most awarded jacket - the Outdry Extreme Eco Jacket), working cross-functionally with product innovation, design & development, merchandising, marketing, sourcing and PR teams. • Managing the environmental supply chain performance team, focused on executing annual Higg Index Facility Module assessments, facilitating business integration of results into sourcing strategies and partnering with vendors on continuous improvement initiatives.• Launched Columbia’s inagural ReThreads product recycling program.

Richmond, California, Us

Mountain Hardwear is owned by Columbia Sportswear Company and this role incorporated both a corporate function as well as a brand function.Brand function: Pioneered Mountain Hardwear’s sustainability program, which included developing a brand point of view on sustainability and putting in place initial systems for evaluating sustainability performance.Corporate function: Responsible for implementing Columbia Sportswear Company's social responsibility and compliance programs for all manufacturing taking place in the Americas region, which included business in El Salvador, Haiti, Dominical Republic, Mexico, Colombia and the United States. The program focused on monitoring, remediation, capacity building, stakeholder engagement and Higg Index Facility Module assessment roll-out to partner factories.

Portland, Oregon, Us

My focus in this role was on environmental management for Columbia’s owned and operated facilities. I developed Green Office and Real Estate Guidelines for Columbia in partnership with the Global Real Estate and Facilities Management Teams and assessed facility environmental performance based on these guidelines. I also executed Columbia’s first global energy, waste and water baseline for these owned and operated facilities.

Eugene, Or, Us

Graduate Teacher Fellowship focused on advising undergraduate business students on career development and preparation.

London, England, Gb

Summer position where I coordinated oil and lubricant deliveries to Scandinavian maritime customers worldwide.

Mba, Sustainable Business

Journalism And Communications

International Relations Study Abroad Exchange