Experience

NVI Blairsville

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of communications

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  I am leading communications and environmental policy work for New Village Initiative, an Orlando-based collection of companies that are involved with green construction, technical education, affordable housing, and sustainability. www.newvillageinitiative.com I am leading communications and environmental policy work for New Village Initiative, an Orlando-based collection of companies that are involved with green construction, technical education, affordable housing, and sustainability. www.newvillageinitiative.com



NVI Advanced Materials Group

• Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Communications and Environmental Initiatives

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  NVI Advanced Materials Group makes a revolutionary plastic-based asphalt additive that improves performance while also helping to reduce plastic pollution and carbon emissions. NVI Advanced Materials Group makes a revolutionary plastic-based asphalt additive that improves performance while also helping to reduce plastic pollution and carbon emissions.



Iowa Capital Dispatch/States Newsroom

• Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Senior reporter

  • Dec 2019 - Sep 2021

  I'm senior reporter for the nonprofit, nonpartisan States Newsroom office in Des Moines, Ia. We cover state government, state agencies, the congressional delegation, caucus candidates and federal agencies whose actions have an effect on Iowans. We are part of a national network that strives to pick up some of the slack left by layoffs and consolidations at media operations across the country. I'm senior reporter for the nonprofit, nonpartisan States Newsroom office in Des Moines, Ia. We cover state government, state agencies, the congressional delegation, caucus candidates and federal agencies whose actions have an effect on Iowans. We are part of a national network that strives to pick up some of the slack left by layoffs and consolidations at media operations across the country.



Business Record

• Managing Editor

  • Jun 2017 - Dec 2019

• Senior staff writer

  • Sep 2014 - Dec 2017

  I cover economic development, technology, innovation, transportation, human resources and education.



Grinnell College

• Editorial Director

  • Aug 2013 - Jun 2014



The Des Moines Register

• Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Senior reporter

  • Aug 1981 - Aug 2013