Delaware River Valley, NJ

1996 - 2014

I grew up playing outside and keeping journals

Upper valley, NH

2014 - 2018

In college, I was drawn to stories with places as protagonists

Studied english, studio art, and environmental studies at Dartmouth. Spent a semester haunting the 24-hour diner The Fort, writing about long-haul truck drivers and addiction. Spent another semester writing about a dam coming down and the return of the river trout to East Burke.

seeds of awe and wonder

How places inform our collective memory and aboriginal songlines and Apache place-naming conventions
How history is encoded in the physical landscape; watching terrestrial ecologist Tom Wessels “read the forest”; walking along Mink Brook learning about Abenaki folklore
Geological time scales – how old this earth is! How recently all of human history has happened!
Learning how trees communicate through Mycorrhizal networks
First encounters with Western perspectives that take animism seriously; David Abrams’ Spell of the Sensuous and James Elkins’ The Object Stares Back

Bay Area, CA

2018 - 2022

after college, I worked on corporate climate solutions

In my first job at Salesforce, I worked on a marketing campaign around the UN Sustainable Development Goals and was inspired to work on sustainability more directly. I joined a fast-growing climate consulting firm called 3Degrees and worked my way through various operational roles, eventually serving as Chief of Staff.

While advising on how to incorporate environmental justice principles into existing workflows, I became frustrated with the system that forced us to prioritize shareholder profits above basically everything else. I saw B-Corp and ESG ratings as topical solutions and much of carbon crediting as a pay-to-pollute scheme that allowed companies to continue the same destructive practices.

climate doom spiral

Felt like I was “waking up” to the realities of climate change; reading Jem Bendell’s controversial Deep Adaptation paper; waking up one morning to an apocalyptically orange sky from fires north of the San Francisco Bay

The Just Transition Alliance’s definition of environmental justice helped me understand the relationship between ecological health and human wellbeing
Tom Wessels’ Myth of Progress hammered home the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet
I used the EPA’s EJSCREEN data to help build an internal tool for prioritizing carbon projects in low-income areas with poor air quality.
Spoke with leaders at environmental justice nonprofits and frontline communities who emphasized the importance of rebuilding connection to the physical landscape
craving power and agency at a local level. Became interested in hyper-local publications combining culture, history, ecology (West Marin County’s Inverness Almanac; Joshua Tree’s Desert Oracle)

charles river watershed, MA

2022 -

Now, I’m making a bet on hyper-local knowledge as a climate solution

When I moved to Boston, I received a grant from Dartmouth College to launch the Quinobequin Review, a journal publishing community-sourced essays, reporting, art, recipes, maps, interviews, and more from throughout the Charles River Watershed. We are print-only, tactile, and we utilize in-person gatherings to deepen trust, build resilience, and inspire greater stewardship here in the Boston area.

what’s shaping me now

Attending the Kenyon Writers Review summer workshop in 2022; meeting people devoting their lives to writing; Calling myself a writer
Becoming a mother in 2023; leaning hard on libraries, parks, mom groups, and other public spaces that make up the “village” — A bit of a civic awakening
discovering Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects and joining her mentee Jess Serrante’s Climate Leadership Circle
Designing a climate solutions journalism crash course as part of my degree, inspired by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, the Solutions Journalism Network, and countless others
Hosting “Neighborhood Salons” as part of my work for the Quinobequin Review; facilitating gatherings reflecting on our relationship with this shared landscape
Currently Inspired by building movements from the local level (C40 cities), mutual aid, cooperatives, re-localizing food production, energy sovereignty (Institute for Local Self Reliance), wealth-building that draws resources back into communities instead of extracting them out (Basque Mondragon Corporation, Boston Ujima Project; New Economy Coalition)