Experience

Vermont Housing Finance Agency

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Community Development Underwriter

  • Feb 2023 - Present



UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Master of City Planning Candidate - Housing, Community, and Economic Development

  • Aug 2021 - Jun 2023

  I received a master of city planning degree with a focus on housing policy and affordable housing finance. While in grad school, I worked as a summer development intern at Jonathan Rose Companies (June-August 2022), graduate student reader for CP 235: Methods of Project Analysis (August-December 2022), and Housing Fellow at the Vermont Housing Finance Agency (September-December 2022). I received a master of city planning degree with a focus on housing policy and affordable housing finance. While in grad school, I worked as a summer development intern at Jonathan Rose Companies (June-August 2022), graduate student reader for CP 235: Methods of Project Analysis (August-December 2022), and Housing Fellow at the Vermont Housing Finance Agency (September-December 2022).



City of Burlington, Vermont

• United States
• Government Administration
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Communications and Special Projects Coordinator, Mayor's Office

  • Sep 2018 - Apr 2021

  I led written communications, managed media strategy, organized public events, and coordinated projects across City departments in a Mayor's Office focused on increasing housing availability and affordability, achieving ambitious local climate goals, and rehabilitating municipal finances and infrastructure. I led written communications, managed media strategy, organized public events, and coordinated projects across City departments in a Mayor's Office focused on increasing housing availability and affordability, achieving ambitious local climate goals, and rehabilitating municipal finances and infrastructure.



Institute for Local Self-Reliance

• United States
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Researcher

  • Feb 2018 - Sep 2018

  As a researcher with ILSR's Community-Scaled Economy Initiative, I produced reports, advocated for policy models, and worked with community organizations to revitalize neighborhoods, strengthen independent businesses, and check the power of dominant corporations.

• Research Associate

  • Sep 2014 - Feb 2018



City Pages

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Staff Writer

  • Dec 2012 - Feb 2014

  I covered life in the Twin Cities as a staff writer for the local alternative-weekly paper, reporting and writing 10 feature cover stories per year and daily web stories that ranged from breaking news to local arts. My work for City Pages earned the 2014 "Media for a Just Society"​ award for newspaper writing and four national 2014 AAN Awards.

• Editorial Fellow

  • Jun 2012 - Nov 2012