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Worked on ACT Team to provide intensive medical and psychiatric treatment for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness and substance use issues in Western NC.

Provided nursing care to patients and their newborns during labor, antepartum, and postpartum in high-volume unit for high-risk births. Circulated in OR and PACU.

Led Idaho's first community resilience initiative, developed climate adaptation/mitigation projects, and managed multi million-dollar sustainability project.• Developed community resilience strategy, framework, and goals for Southern Idaho• Led community resilience workshops for 100+ diverse stakeholders from across South Central Idaho; conducted hundreds of interviews to understand the region's unique risks and opportunities.• Identified critical facilities in Blaine County and worked with operators to prioritize power loads and design backup energy systems for highest-priority loads.• Served on Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) and made updates to emergency plans.• Created vision and prospectus for multi million-dollar land-use project and conducted complex research on business model design, entity formation, and joint ventures.

Built the organization's energy program from the ground up.• Completed the third digital energy blueprint in the United States with Idaho National Laboratory.• Launched one of the first electric-vehicle (EV) adoption campaigns in the country, doubling the # of EVs in Blaine County and serving as a model for other communities across the West.• Pioneered the first Solarize campaign in ID, increasing solar capacity by 500% from the year before.• Created an innovative financial model and work-around to fund low-income solar projects in Idaho.• Identified the county's first microgrid project and completed financial feasibility studies and conceptual designs.• Worked with County Commissioners to create an Energy Mitigation Plan and low-income solar grants.

Started a profitable social enterprise that more than brought online 3 MW of rooftop solar capacity and generated over $14 million in new clean energy investment.• Conducted original market research to understand the barriers to adopting clean energy in the Southeast and developed a solution that radically scaled adoption in the previously stagnant region.• Created a profitable business model to accelerate clean energy adoption, wrote market expansion plan, and successfully scaled across eight target markets in the Southeast. • Managed financial operations including planning, forecasting, bookkeeping, and cash flow.• Organized group-purchases for solar and energy efficiency in large cities and counties in NC.• Selected contractors and negotiated pricing and terms for solar and energy efficiency contracts. • Built a proprietary data management platform for customer acquisition. • Consulted for New York State Energy Research & Development (NYSERD), the Sierra Club, National Resource Defense Council (NRDC), and the Georgia Solar Association.

Advised Asheville City Council on which policies to adopt. Helped implement Clean Energy Policy Framework; carbon reduction goals and roadmap. Analyzed waste management alternatives and feasibility of citywide composting. Advised on storm water run-off practices.

Founded a marketing campaign that helped over 800 families install solar and energy efficiency measures in their homes and businesses. Led clean energy adoption campaigns in NC and advised additional campaigns in SC, GA, CA, ID, NY, and TX.

Pioneered the first Solarize campaign in the South which took Asheville by storm and started a solar movement throughout the Southeast. Touted by the Department of Energy as one of the most successful solar campaigns to date. Worked with a local credit union to create the first residential solar loan product in the South.