Women-owned, emerging small business focusing on planning and design efforts supporting the outdoor recreation tourism communities in Portland and around the Pacific Northwest. Includes working with small businesses and rural communities to plan public bike infrastructure, hotel and restaurant renovations and lodging. Lodging can take many forms, including new-build modern cabins and ADUs, renovations of old buildings into hotels, bike-van camping communities, etc.Includes expertise in renovations of older and historic buildings, flexible, multi-use spaces and high-level acoustics.

Freelance, remote architecture and design work for BSpark Architecture, a small, woman-owned, B-Corp architectural firm in Montana. Reconnected with the owner and close friend, after having worked together for many years in my home state of Arizona.

10+ years working on a wide variety of Portland-based and regional projects, ranging from high-end, private residential, an arts hub by and for the local BIPOC community, arts headquarters for a local, visual arts organization, new boutique hotel and restaurant in an old motor hotel, newly-envisioned office work environments at Nike’s campus headquarters, to OSU’s new performing arts center and art gallery.Worked leading projects as both a Project Architect and Project Designer and in a leadership and major mentorship role with the firm.

Provided and organized programs to support local emerging designers in the architecture profession.

6+ years working on local, community-based projects including: conceptual designs for a new pedestrian bridge at Tempe Town Lake and pedestrian piers and covered structures at a local park to major new build campus planning, student residences, classroom buildings and an event center / basketball arena for GCU and a new construction and technology building for ASU.

School of Architecture & Landscape ArchitectureSecond-year design studio.Taught architecture design studio courses on the intersection of architecture and landscape architecture.