I have more than four years of experience as a business owner and publisher of HempBuild Magazine, a publishing services company that connects builders, designers, and the hemp-curious in the emerging hemp building industry. As an Incubator Fellow at IMPEL, I am part of the 2023 cohort for green building materials innovation, focusing on hempcrete, a sustainable and carbon-negative insulation.In addition to my entrepreneurial and advocacy work, I am an award-winning reporter and grant writer with more than 10 years of experience, including covering drugs, space, natural resources, wildlife, climate, immigration, and hemp for United Press International. I have won several honors for my investigative journalism, including the 2016 First Prize Non-Daily News Series from the Cook County Chronicle and the 2014 Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club. I am proficient in data analysis, visualization, and reporting, using tools such as GANTT charts, Dataviz, Chartbeat, Social Flow, Google Analytics, and SEO best practices. I am passionate about creating top-quality writing, investigative, and web products that inform, educate, and inspire.I served as a statewide advisory board member of the Colorado Hemp Advancement Management Plan (CHAMP), to develop the state's Hemp Blueprint.