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San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Boutique consulting firm focused on advancing environmental health and equitable climate solutions. Selected clients include: Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Safer States, Environmental Working Group, and League of Conservation Voters.

• Provided strategic, policy, and scientific guidance for Safer States, a nationwide alliance of environmental health organizations and coalitions.• Spearheaded development of technical comments, model legislation and other materials for state and federal campaigns to eliminate toxic chemicals and plastic pollution. • Led coalition calls to strategize, share intelligence and craft compelling campaigns. • Engaged with and provided leadership within the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Network, including convening monthly strategy calls on state “chemical recycling” policy.• Represented Safer States in efforts to promote a strong global plastic treaty. • Provided legislative support to member organizations running state policy campaigns.• Collaborated with 100+ organizations in Safer States and Break Free From Plastic Pollution networks.• Drafted and edited grant proposals, and helped secure major funding for a new plastic-focused campaign.• Key issues: Plastic pollution, toxic chemical, PFAS, "chemical recycling," non-toxic reuse.

San Francisco Bay Area

Created and executed on strategic goals that enabled significant organizational scaling.• Directed program administration, financial management, fundraising, partnershipdevelopment, operations, and communications.• Established GRID Alternatives Bay Area as a new affiliate 501(c)3 organization underGRID Alternatives, Inc. and recruited a diverse Board of Directors.• Cultivated and managed a team of 35+ staff across two regional offices.• Contributed key strategic input as part of the national GRID Alternatives executive team.• Supported staff development and significantly increased diversity in leadership roles.• Expanded corporate partnership program, growing corporate gifts by $400K+ per year.• Increased annual organizational budget from $3.7M to $8.1M in less than five years.• Won $2M+ state contract to build one of the first community solar projects in California.• Established a new clean mobility team and won a $250K+ government contract toadminister Clean Cars for All, an electric vehicle incentive program for low-income families.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Deployed more than 750 solar systems for low-income families and multifamily affordablehousing, generating over $20M in long-term energy cost savings.• Designed and implemented job training programs targeting women and veterans, andlaunched a new program to provide low-income families with no-cost roof replacements.• Doubled the number of solar installations for Native American communities.• Built strong strategic partnerships with local cities, government agencies, corporatesponsors, environmental justice leaders, and community based organizations.

San Francisco Bay Area / Washington Dc

• Managed team of 10+ scientists and government affairs staff.• Developed budgets, crafted goals and measured performance for $2M+ program.• Directed research for $10+M budget organization known for unique research products.• Wrote or contributed to 40+ successful grant proposals.• Cultivated major donors making individual gifts of up to $150K to the organization.• Guided overall organizational direction as member of EWG executive leadership team.• Worked extensively with state and federal policymakers on environmental health issuesranging from drinking water standards, to ingredient transparency, to TSCA reform.• Led EWGʻs science team to create the technical standards for the EWG VerifiedCertification Program for personal care and cleaning products.• Grew and maintained EWGʻs Skin Deep database which rates 95,000 personal careproducts on toxicity – searched more than 250M times.• Oversaw the development EWG’s Food Scores database which evaluates 80,000 foodsfor nutrition, ingredient, and processing concerns, currently with over 100M searches.• Built relationships with leading businesses and corporations.• Acted as a spokesperson for EWG and created sophisticated presentations for policyadvocacy, scientific conferences, funder gatherings, and press conferences.

• Managed team of 4+ scientists and government affairs staff.• Lead lobbyist on state legislation addressing PFAS, BPA, and other harmful chemicals.• Testified at dozens of regulatory and legislative hearings.• Drafted compelling technical comments for state and federal policy issues.• Represented EWG in hundreds of print, radio and television interviews.• Quoted or featured in major national media outlets, including The New York Times, WallStreet Journal, Washington Post, PBS, and National Public Radio.• Collaborated with EWG’s communications, social media, design, and government affairsteams to develop persuasive materials and campaigns.• Developed a specialty in conveying complex, technical information in user-friendly ways.• Spearheaded strategy for diverse array of environmental campaigns to eliminate toxicchemicals from consumer products, air, food and drinking water.• Designed and executed scientific studies aimed at shifting policy and markets.• Authored 20+ hard-hitting reports that garnered national media coverage.• Created unique scorecards and consumer resources that provided science-basedguidance to consumers on products ranging from food to cleaning supplies.• Collaborated with 50+ environmental and public health advocacy organizations.

Department Of Biology

Department Of Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology

Activities and Societies: Huxley Award for Excellence in Ecology, Rice Outdoors Club President, Rice Environmental Club President

Master Of Science - Ms, Biology

Activities and Societies: Biology Department Graduate Fellowship, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Competition Honorable.