Board member and Review Team Lead at Ecologists Without Borders. I help choose projects and shape strategy. I have won and managed grants for environmental work in Thailand and Seattle.
Specialized Programs Director at the University of Washington, Seattle. I design custom education programs for international students in tech, science, nursing, business, sustainability, and other fields, and I negotiate the partnerships that make them happen.
Grant manager of Green Square garden at UW Seattle, funded by the Campus Sustainability Fund. This includes overseeing the grant and supervising paid and volunteer student positions. Specialized tasks include seed saving and multi-year data trend tracking.
Instructor of AI Finance (Edmonds College), with a focus on safe, accessible learning and on helping people make good personal choices when using technology.
Business creator and entrepreneur, using lessons learned to build financial literacy and resilience for myself and my community.
Unstoppable thinker, synthesizing insights across diverse fields like economics, neuroscience, design, and Indigenous knowledge. Constant input, always connecting.
Author of seven books, including 108 Dreams is a collection of surreal vignettes written in ungendered second person, and 216 Dreams is its sequel, with digital illustrations. Two books were published under pen names, and my earlier books are comedy cookbooks. Forthcoming books include 436 Dreams and 1058 Days.
I contribute to public art pieces through Urban Artworks and my recent visual art has been shown at Columbia City Gallery in Seattle and is on permanent display at Mount Vernon Library Commons. I also have a background in film production, music video direction, and digital storytelling.
Instructor of Foraging Edible Wild Plants (New Start Community Garden, Burien): I teach people to spot the free food growing around them, and to reconnect with the land and traditional knowledge.
Instructor of Introduction to Backyard Permaculture (Edmonds College): the basics of designing low-maintenance food systems that regenerate the land, with no large acreage needed. The course is rooted in Indigenous science and land sovereignty.
Daily intentional dabbler in the absurd, obscure, and all points on the bell curve; because laughing is better than crying.
Consistent local, domestic, and international traveler, simultaneously focused on the minute and meta experience of life's finite and infinite possibilities.
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