My career focus is on integrating my engineering background with my life-long study of people. I have a PhD in Civil Engineering and my 20+ year career in the water industry has included everything from conducting water quality research, to managing large projects and engineering teams, to my current work at the intersection of social equity and public infrastructure. I am fascinated by people—I formerly trained and worked as a life coach, am a Certified Enneagram Instructor (enneagraminstitute.com), and spend much of my current work coaching and mentoring small business owners and staff. I feel lucky to have had such a rewarding career and one of my greatest sources of meaning is helping others create rewarding careers of their own! I like to say I aspire to be the world’s first engineering psychologist, bringing engineering thinking to understanding what makes people tick. At one of our Women in Leadership Symposium’s in Portland, we were challenged to come up with our personal brand. Mine was "I help people see themselves and the world with new eyes." That skill is something I apply in my work every day—helping engineers see how equity fits in to their work and bridging gaps between engineers and the communities they serve.
Listed skills include Water Quality, Civil Engineering, Water Supply, Proposal Writing, and 23 others.