Experience

Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR)

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  Leading placemaking/placekeeping and cultural resource technical support to help transform communities through land reuse and brownfields redevelopment. Leading placemaking/placekeeping and cultural resource technical support to help transform communities through land reuse and brownfields redevelopment.



Self-employed

• San Francisco, California, United States

• Community Engagement Consultant

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  Creative. Adaptive. Strategic. A master connector who works at the intersection of cultural resources and placemaking to bring communities together for shared, inclusive purposes. Industries include nonprofit, government agencies, private sector businesses and corporations, and real estate developers. Skills include: community development, program design, event planning, meeting facilitation, project management, strategic planning and field building Creative. Adaptive. Strategic. A master connector who works at the intersection of cultural resources and placemaking to bring communities together for shared, inclusive purposes. Industries include nonprofit, government agencies, private sector businesses and corporations, and real estate developers. Skills include: community development, program design, event planning, meeting facilitation, project management, strategic planning and field building



Niantic, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Manager - Community Engagement/Partnerships

  • Sep 2020 - Dec 2022

  Social impact consultant cultivating partnerships with nonprofit organizations in historically underserved communities. Providing strategic planning, mentoring and supporting nonprofit executive leaders, and providing programmatic guidance including: ~ Project managing collaborations to develop more equitable and accessible public spaces and design community-based programming ~ Directing a nation-wide pilot project developed as an emergency response to impacts of 2020 in historically Black, urban neighborhoods, including collaborating on organizational capacity building objectives and goals, designing engagement strategies and guiding programs from planning through implementation Show less



Circa: Historic Property Development

• San Francisco

• Principal and Owner

  • 1999 - 2014

  Created Circa to address the gaps between historic preservation, economic sustainability, and place-equity for the revitalization of underutilized buildings, vacant lots/brownfields, urban neighborhoods, and underrepresented communities. ~ Conducting cultural/historic impact analysis following NEPA and CEQA criteria ~ Leading design charrettes for streetscape, alternatives for new construction in traditional commercial districts and new additions to historic properties, and public open spaces ~ Leading the design of programmatic frameworks to support equitable and positive social change, particularly for public spaces, public art representation, and cultural expression ~ Managing and training of executive leaders of nonprofit organizations, their boards of directors, and volunteers to achieve organizational goals ~ Designing and facilitating numerous community meetings, social meetups, team building workshops, stakeholder gatherings, volunteer trainings, and strategic planning processes Show less



Downtown Revitalization Programs

• California and New Jersey

• Executive Director

  • 1990 - 1999

  Executive Director for community-based, neighborhood revitalization programs based on the holistic "Main Street" four-point approach. Facilitated neighborhood appropriate design, events/marketing, initiated strategic planning initiatives, project management of multiple public space, streetscape, and farmer's market programs. Conducted board and volunteer training and development, community input workshops, and business development seminars. Executive Director for community-based, neighborhood revitalization programs based on the holistic "Main Street" four-point approach. Facilitated neighborhood appropriate design, events/marketing, initiated strategic planning initiatives, project management of multiple public space, streetscape, and farmer's market programs. Conducted board and volunteer training and development, community input workshops, and business development seminars.