Background

Below you will find a career narrative with work in policy, start-ups, and technology as well as research at both the University of California, Berkeley and Duke University:

UC BERKELEY - Senior thesis entitled: “A Beautiful Battleground:” How The Sea Ranch’s Attempt to Merge Architectural Development with Ecological Mindfulness Inspired a Generational Rethinking of the Environmental Movement, advised by Professor Daniel Kelly, Professor James Vernon, and Professor Adam Orford
UC BERKELEY - Research with Professor Adam Orford focused on political divisions within the 1960s Republican party over support for the rising environmental movement
DUKE UNIVERSITY - Research advised by Professor Douglas Brook on reforming California's Office of Emergency Services, electric utilities, and California Public Utilities Commission to prevent wildfires

CLEANTECH GROUP - Technology research, market/legal analysis, and business development consultation focused on precommercial technologies and corporate investors in the clean-technology space
VEGAMX - Business development including finacial modeling and partnership acquisition for a precommercial wildfire detection, mitigation, and prevention software company
CICERO INSTITUTE - Policy research focused on business-facing environmental solutions including: Web3-based wildfire prevention bonds and electricity production in abandoned mines
SWING STRATEGIES - Legal research ensuring the Costco corporation's environmental compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
SUTARDJA CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP and TECHNOLOGY - Completion of 18-week and 6-week start-up development program in which our team of five built and pitched Corylus, a wildfire mapping and prediction tool to a panel of founders from StartupXP, 786 Ventures, pop.com, and GoogleX