Investigative journalism shedding light on the sustainability efforts of innovative materials + fashion brands and the creators behind them.

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Supports early-to-mid stage organizations on intensive, 3-month minimum contracts. Contractees include: Agrology PBC (2021), Flowcarbon (2022), Gitcoin.co (2022), & Wasted PBC (2023). Oversaw sales & partnerships strategies to drive revenue. Built custom CRM implementation in Hubspot, created Sales Playbook, performed market research and tested pricing on a wide variety of new service offerings. Performed direct sales and managed account closures and passthrough of account data to the service management team. Where relevant, developed high-leverage B2B partnerships in lieu of product sales. Trained a full-time account executive hire in best practices. Managed all projects of the Sales team in Asana and owned weekly Sales reporting to the C-suite.

ReSci Network (Co-Founded with Ned Horning of Regen Network) was a project funded via Gitcoin.co (a peer-to-peer crypto-enabled fundraising platform) which endeavored to build infrastructure for global, open-source scientific collaboration and decentralized peer review.

Owned outbound strategy and lead development process. Formed strategic partnerships with tech companies in need of reliable IoT connectivity solutions.

Formed relationships with clients to drive closing sales. Collected and reported client feedback to Product, Design, Engineering. Collaborated with product team to improve sales-facing and customer-facing UX. Collaborated with Sales Enablement to launch a sales metrics model emphasizing team member effectiveness.

Employed digital marketing tools to spearhead a public fundraising campaignAnalyzed sales data to forge new sales pathways and increase organic revenue

Efficiently organized and performed 3 simultaneous multi-variable research projectsAuthored published peer-reviewed literature and presented at academic conferencesDirectly managed undergraduate research assistants

Certified Member of the Professional Ski Instructors Association of America (PSIAA). Led group & private lessons. Drove sales of ski packages & continued lesson programs.

- Served as a Teaching Assistant for the courses Microbial Ecology and Intro Cell Chemistry & Biology- Took responsibility for setting up laboratory supplies and equipment, answering student questions, and aiding students in designing independent experiments

- Characterized the microbial community of the Salton Sea Mud Volcanoes using classic microbiological methods as well as metagenomic analysis- Oversaw the management of supplies, orders, equipment usage- Directly trained new Research Assistants

- Organized and performed cooking demonstrations at local farmer's markets including Watauga, Ashe, and Alleghany counties to increase consumer knowledge of cooking with seasonally-available produce- Funded by Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) Grant written by the CDC

- Independently managed a multivariable microbial community analysis experiment while simultaneously developing a creative method for novel microbial species isolation