Provide leadership, management, and strategic direction for EDF's climate and energy policy initiatives in North Carolina and other key southern states, including Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.

Lobby the NC General Assembly on behalf of a network of 100+ environmental groups.Lead calls and meetings for statewide groups of clean energy advocates & lobbyists.Attend and report on Energy Policy Council meetings.Draft public comments on EPA and DEQ rulemakings. Coordinate stakeholders groups around Executive Order 80 implementation.

Work with student teams and senior attorneys representing non-profit clients across the Southeast.Direct student team conducting scientific literature review of groundwater sampling techniques.Direct case work on Endangered Species Act issues regarding Atlantic Sturgeon.Taught course in Food, Agriculture & the Environment to Duke Law & Nicholas School Students.Contributed pro bono work addressing abandoned vessel ordinances in eastern North Carolina.

Educate and advocate for the enforcement of state and federal clean water laws. Protect fishable, swimmable, drinkable water in the Yadkin River watershed.Plaintiff in federal litigation leading to agreement excavate and recycle over five million tons of coal ash.Conduct in field water sampling with state-certified labs.Conduct aerial reconaissance of potential pollution issues.Organize and manage group paddles of 125+ paddlers on the Yadkin River.Serve as a source for local, state, national and documentary media coverage of environmental issues in North Carolina's second largest watershed.

Managed campaign fundraising.Coordinated with state party and national vendors.Created and maintained Drupal website.Candidate defeated incumbent legislator by 496 votes.

Extern, Fall 2012Temporary Attorney, Fall 2013-Winter 2014

Worked on federal appellate labor issues.Assisted on union arbitration hearings.Presented findings to union local leadership.

Researched and wrote on state-level impacts of draft language for proposed EPA Rule 111(d) guidance regulating emissions from new source electrical generating units. Researched and wrote on state level hydraulic fracturing regulation to assist Duke scientists in recommendations to NC legislature.