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Boise, Idaho, United States

With five locations throughout the city, Boise Public Library serves the largest city in Idaho.

Seattle, Wa

Recruited to pilot an internal, cross-foundation effort to increase impact by strengthening organizations critical to multiple strategy teams and across all program areas. Created consistent framework to assess organization capacity in leadership, talent, learning, processes, resources, and governance. Efforts led to stronger, more effective organizations, more knowledgeable staff, and better coordinated engagement.

Senior leader of 20 year/$1B effort to improve the lives of information poor individuals and communities while positioning the world’s 320k public libraries as critical assets in development. Responsible for strategy setting, team management, and programmatic and financial oversight. Led multiple strategic shifts from direct implementation to replication by partners to scaling through the field and eventually to wind-down.

Seattle, Wa

Senior Program Officer, Global Libraries, 2009 to 2010Program Officer, Global Libraries, 2004 to 2009Served as lead program officer for strategy team. Developed and oversaw multi-year investments co-funded with foreign governments to modernize public libraries testing new approaches and tools including sustainability and impact assessment frameworks. Developed internal reputation as foundation leader in best practices in grant development and management.

Directly responsible for the design and implementation of the Native American Access to Technology Program, an initiative to provide public access computers and Internet access for tribal communities in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.

Seattle, Wa

Key member of 130-person implementation team that designed and installed the first public access computers and Internet connectivity in libraries in rural communities throughout the United States.

Seattle, Wa

Developed curriculum and taught computer classes for novice computer users while serving as network administrator for high school library computer lab.

Seattle, Wa

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