Artist in Residence - U.S. National Park system

Petrified Forest NP - 2019 Great Sand Dunes NP - 2019 Joshua Tree NP - 2021. Listen to Colorado Public Radio interview here.

WILD I70 AUDIO TOUR - Executive Writer | Producer

Colorado based project, collaborating with scientists, NGOs, artists across the state. Learn more here.

I’ve collaborated with (click on bolded text for links): International Dark Sky Association, Sunrise Movement, Patagonia Area Resource Alliance, Women in Sustainability, National Renewable Energy Lab, Speak for Wolves conference, Sierra Club, Audubon Society Arizona Youth Climate Association, law schools, high schools, grade schools, undergraduate programs, and more

As an organizer with Defenders of Wildlife and WildEarth Guardians (Arizona) and Rocky Mountain Wild (Colorado) - click on bolded text -

  • Campaign planning and execution – coordinated between the rest of government relations staff in Washington, DC, activists, and Congressional staff. Acted as a conduit between members of Congress and their constituents, applying strategic pressure in key swing districts in Arizona to move a pro-conservation agenda. Specific campaigns included: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the border wall removal and remediation, strengthening and fully funding the ESA, etc. Tactics included: earned media, social media, driving calls and petitions, phone to Action. Direct and grassroots lobbying.

  • Tribal co-management - build relationships with tribes with ties to the landscape, including the Hopi, Navajo, San Carlos Apache, White Mountain Apache, Chiracahua Apache, and others. Worked with several tribal government liasons & contractors to tease out nuances around intertribal politics, tribal recognition, treaties, etc. while fostering a tribally lead campaign.

  • Curated the annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival on tour. Film selection, contract negotiation, manage relationships with vendors and theatre, media acquisition, volunteer organization, performed as emcee, conduct a Citizens Action Hub  (a coalition of NGOS), maintain successful relationships with Wild and Scenic headquarters in Nevada City, CA, local sponsors, filmmakers, and production companies (2017, 2018, 2020). 

  • Facilitated media and communications relationships with entities such as TedX Mile High, Outside Magazine Colorado Public Radio, High Country News, White Mountain Independent, Patagonia Denver, the Denver Art Museum, PBS Denver, MSU Denver and University of Denver, 5280 Magazine, Westword alt weekely, etc. 

International Experience

  • Selected as one of 16 international trail team members to work with the Environment Agency of Iceland (Umhverfisstofnun) in the Conservation department (May - Sept. 2016). Lived out of tent for duration of term. Returned as trail team leader in 2017, invited to return every year since. Worked with park rangers, Environment Agency staff, and other trail team members in an often unforgiving climate..

Grant Writing

On Behalf of Denver-based conservation NGO Rocky Mountain Wild

  • Funded for Oil & Gas Toolkit for Grassroot Activists (Patagonia, $8,000 - 2018)

  • Funded for Wild I70 Audio Tour (Harris Foundation, $5,000 - 2017)

  • Funded for 100 Women for the Wild Programming (Colorado Parks and Wildlife, $2,500 - 2017) 

On Behalf of Metropolitan State College of Denver Biology Department

  • Funded for travel expenses to attend and present at American Society of Microbiology Conference in Boston, MA (MSU Denver, $1,000 - 2014)

  • Funded for microbiology lab for research on soil microbes (MSU Denver, $1,000 - 2014)

Wild I-70 Audio Tour

Research

  • 1 year under the direction of a microbiology PA studying the nitrification potentials of soil microbes on a sustainable green roof. Performed Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction analysis, developed materials and methods, presented research at student research conference at MSU Denver. (2013-2014)

Naturalist , Teaching & Guiding Experience

  • International trail team for Umhverfisstofnun, the Environment Agency of Iceland, moving around Iceland and living out of my tent doing trail work with hand tools across the country. (2016 and 2017)

  • Science teacher in Gangnum Gu, Seoul, South Korea at English speaking academy for children ages 5-13. Administered tests, created lesson plans and experiments, ate lots of amazing kimchi (2016)

  • Gastineau Guiding science guide in Juneau, Alaska. Led hikes as well as whale watching tours with a citizen science aspect. Lectured on ecology, glaciology, climate change, etc. Certified Alaskan Interpretative Guide and Coast Guard safety certified (2015)

  • Bluff Lake Nature Center - taught children aged 5-10 water cycles, life cycles, and other lessons to fulfill Denver Public Schools science standards (2013-2015)