Experience

Mystic River Watershed Association

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Policy Advisor

  • Jun 2018 - Present

  Leading MyRWA's climate resilience program, working with municipalities to plan for and implement regionally important projects to decrease the risk of harm from extreme weather while providing other benefits. Leading MyRWA's climate resilience program, working with municipalities to plan for and implement regionally important projects to decrease the risk of harm from extreme weather while providing other benefits.



North Cambridge Consulting

• Principal

  • Jun 2017 - Jun 2018

  Provided analytical, writing, scientific communications and strategic planning support for clients such as UMass Boston, the National Park Service, Woods Hole Group, Mystic River Watershed Association and others. Research predominantly involved climate resilience. Provided analytical, writing, scientific communications and strategic planning support for clients such as UMass Boston, the National Park Service, Woods Hole Group, Mystic River Watershed Association and others. Research predominantly involved climate resilience.



Boston Harbor Now

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President for Policy

  • 2016 - 2017

  Boston Harbor Now is a non-profit civic organization formed in April 2016 through the merger of The Boston Harbor Association and the Boston Harbor Island Alliance. It brings decades of waterfront, open space and recreational experience together to maximize recreational, cultural and social opportunities in and around Boston Harbor; promote an integrated water transportation system and foster mixed economic development as a model for climate change resiliency. Boston Harbor Now is a non-profit civic organization formed in April 2016 through the merger of The Boston Harbor Association and the Boston Harbor Island Alliance. It brings decades of waterfront, open space and recreational experience together to maximize recreational, cultural and social opportunities in and around Boston Harbor; promote an integrated water transportation system and foster mixed economic development as a model for climate change resiliency.



The Boston Harbor Association

• Executive Director

  • 2011 - 2016

  • Managed organizational transition from a small non-profit centered around the long-term work of an iconic individual to a mid-sized non-profit with a more diverse, sustained funding base and program focus.• Initiated a coalition of non-profits, public agencies and businesses to put on "Summer on the Waterfront," an annual promotion of Boston's waterfront that reached 12 million people in its first year.• Co-wrote "Preparing for the Rising Tide," a report on neighborhood-level climate change adaptation strategies for Boston.



Environmental Defense Fund

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• New England Regional Director--Oceans Program

  • 2008 - 2010

  • Managed New England team of staff and consultants as part of national campaign to transform US marine fishery management.• Successfully advocated for nearly $50 million in federal grants to support the transition to catch share management in New England. • Managed New England team of staff and consultants as part of national campaign to transform US marine fishery management.• Successfully advocated for nearly $50 million in federal grants to support the transition to catch share management in New England.



Appalachian Mountain Club

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Policy Director

  • 2005 - 2007

  • Managed staff and budget for multiple long-term, interdepartmental conservation campaigns from Maine to Maryland.• Led foundation fundraising efforts for department.• Trained staff in and performed communications, government relations, public speaking and group facilitation roles. • Managed budget and appropriations campaign for the Northern Forest Alliance that helped secure millions in federal grants for forestland conservation and outdoor recreation. • Managed staff and budget for multiple long-term, interdepartmental conservation campaigns from Maine to Maryland.• Led foundation fundraising efforts for department.• Trained staff in and performed communications, government relations, public speaking and group facilitation roles. • Managed budget and appropriations campaign for the Northern Forest Alliance that helped secure millions in federal grants for forestland conservation and outdoor recreation.



The Wilderness Society

• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Northeast Regional Director

  • 1996 - 2004

  • Promoted from Northeast Regional Associate in 1999. • Tripled regional staff.• Created and co-led successful multi-state, nine-year coalition campaign to create wilderness areas in New England’s national forests. • Key strategist and regional field organizer in national campaign that increased federal land conservation funding by several billion dollars. • Key strategist and regional field organizer in national campaign to support the roadless area conservation rule that that set aside nearly sixty million acres in the national forest system from new logging, mining and road building. • Created Project Noah, a faith-based wilderness advocacy program.



Abt Associates

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analyst

  • 1991 - 1995

  • Promoted from research associate, 1993. • Prepared risk analyses, regulatory impact analyses, and policy documents for US EPA on solid waste composting, environmental toxicology, environmental marketing. • Promoted from research associate, 1993. • Prepared risk analyses, regulatory impact analyses, and policy documents for US EPA on solid waste composting, environmental toxicology, environmental marketing.



Sterling College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching faculty

  • 1992 - 1993

  • Taught Writing and Study Skills, Ecology, Resource Issues, Woodlot Harvesting. • Editor of college newspaper, resident supervisor, student advisor. • Taught Writing and Study Skills, Ecology, Resource Issues, Woodlot Harvesting. • Editor of college newspaper, resident supervisor, student advisor.