Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Feb 2023 – Sep 2023 · 7 mos

• Part of a team building out a new architecture for ecological benefits. Not a standard, not a certification - but a "handshake" that can be the link between enviro markets, ReFi, ESG and alternative investing, public investment and procurement, and I think a lot more. Six month sprint led brilliantly by The Lexicon. https://www.canyouchangethefuture.org/

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos

• Guide Forest Trends' nature finance, climate finance, and strategic outreach and partnership work.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr

• Yellowstone hotspot geology, the Butte cooper boom, arsenic bioremediation, Superfund, macroinvertebrate sampling, osprey, and whatever else came up in class

May 2010 – Sep 2010 · 4 mos · Hillsboro, OR

• Demand assessment for ecosystem service credits in the Willamette Basin. I developed a model analyzing risk factors driving buyer behavior and engaged potential credit buyers. Subject of Master's thesis.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2018 · 8 yrs

• I led market analysis of biodiversity credit markets and watershed investment structures for global environmental markets information platform Ecosystem Marketplace. Author of multiple major reports and papers with publications in Nature Sustainability, Science, International Forestry Review, Ecosystem Services, Texas A&M Law Review.
• I helped launch the world's first nature-based startup accelerator ECOSTAR & trained startups in carbon, water, and biodiversity markets & finance.
• PI on environmental market analysis contracts for clients including the Forest Stewardship Council and the US Department of Agriculture Office of Environmental Markets.
• I managed development of a geospatial platform for ecosystem markets in the United States in partnership with the US Environmental Protection Agency and USDA Office of Environmental Markets. We created a series of case studies evaluating investment models for ecological restoration on public and private lands.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr · London, England, United Kingdom

• Degree awarded with merit. Chaired an audit of the London School of Economics’ sustainability performance for the LSE’s Environmental Management Review Group. Short-listed for the UK "Green Gown" award

Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 · 0 mo · Tucson, Arizona, United States

• Happy camper

Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 · 0 mo · Oakland, California, United States

• Policy analysis and case studies on public financing of renewable energy R&D, demonstration, and deployment; ‘learning curves’ in policy innovation; and barriers to commercialization

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr