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San Francisco, California, United States

Lead a small Lutheran congregation in the Sunset district of San Francisco. As a congregation, we are committed to walking in the way of Christ to connect and care for each other, our communities, and the world. Ongoing programs include classic Lutheran Sunday worship, seasonal Morning Prayer services, confirmation classes, and Bible Study. Recently created a new program, Saturday Fun & Games, in collaboration with a local community group, which provides a monthly childcare program for the community.

San Francisco, Ca

I serve approximately once per month, serving as a Night Minister in the Tenderloin, Castro, and other areas of San Francisco where folks are living on the street. Night Ministers offer pastoral care in the form of spiritual and emotional support, referral services, and connection to all those out at night, visiting folks on the streets of San Francisco as well as bars, coffee shops, donut shops, hotels, SROs, transit stations, and the like.

Berkeley, California, United States

Coordinating pastoral team in designing and leading worship services, creating mid-week and other special events, working with ULC ministry and operational teams, providing pastoral care, and connecting with the community.

San Francisco, California, United States

Exploring possibilities for new worshipping community, social enterprise, and community engagement site in San Francisco, associated with St Paulus Lutheran Church.

Lead two worship services - online and in-person - on Sunday mornings.

Berkeley, Ca

Work for University Lutheran Chapel in all areas of ministry. Specific projects include:* working with members to implement neighborhood groups, providing social, spiritual, and public service experiences in the areas where members live (primarily online because of pandemic shutdown)* coordinating, with a congregational team, a special service to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ordination of women in the Lutheran Church * preaching 1-2 times per month* leading worship, with church's pastors, at weekly services

Oakland, Ca

Work for IM4HI, an organization focused on immigration and mass incarceration. Specific work includes:* Planning and facilitating monthly interfaith vigils at the ICE building in San Francisco, working with different faith leaders and congregations and supporting specific immigration goals* Researching and defining the steps and costs of immigrant resettlement in preparation for grant applications* Creating education materials on a faith and race timeline

San Francisco Bay Area

Founder and President of altSpirit. altSpirit creates and supports communities in living out their values in the world. We provide printed and online materials and direct consulting for all ages in the area of: * Intentional spirituality - how do you more deeply embed your spirituality into your everyday life?* Intentional economics - how do you more closely align your values with the way you spend, lend, give, invest, and work?* Intentional economics for youth - what do you need to know to make effective decisions about economics? what tools can help you make the difference you want to make?

Lafayette, Ca

Design and implement all external marketing, including management of website redesign, curation of all social media channels, design of brochures and posters as needed to publicize events, and writing of press releases and communication with print media.

San Francisco Bay Area

Created databases and analyzed data for individuals and small businesses. Work included: * Led short-term project for Fitbit, the market leader in connected health and fitness products. Analyzed measures of product use and health impact across thousands of users, hundreds of days of use, and multiple sites. Highlighted trends and recommended actions to enhance value of product to corporate clients.* Set up a database of legal documents for an expert witness that allowed for ease of retrieval of documents, call up of relevant case players as needed, and tracking of invoices and payment.* Performed a cost analysis of a large home construction project to allow better cost control.

Lafayette, Ca

Lead youth and family programming for large progressive Lutheran church.Designed and implemented transition from traditional Sunday School programming to experiential programming.

* Strategy consultant to telecom / high tech companies* Pro bono work for an arts organization and a youth services provider

M.Div., Evangelism And Justice Concentration

Activities and Societies: Student Association Executive Committee - 2017-2019 Graduate Assistant - 2017-2018 CPE - Provided spiritual care.

Ph.D., Chemistry

Advisor: Paul Alivisatos Studied semiconductor nanocrystals

A.B., Physics And Math

Activities and Societies: Soccer, Bach Society Orchestra, Women in Science

Project Zero Institute, Education

Activities and Societies: Weeklong program providing training in many aspects of experiential education for children and youth. Program is.