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UPDATED MARCH 2026
The career I'm after
The sustainability landscape is shifting — and that makes it more important to responsible companies, not less. I completed my MIT Chief Sustainability Officer program and received the prestigious MIT Fire Hydrant Award for our team’s impact project. I also earned my Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) credential, adding the financial fluency that sustainability strategy increasingly demands. I’m also working to update and publish my UCLA thesis — “The Slow Evolution of Boards Will Cost Us Climate Progress and Shareholder Returns” — which evaluated the sustainability competencies of S&P 500 board directors, identified industry leaders and laggards, and made the business case for moving to a low-carbon future now.
I’m in active conversations with sustainability consulting practices and sustainability teams inside S&P 1000 companies, exploring roles at the strategy and implementation levels — alongside my ongoing consulting work. What drives me most is the shift from reducing harm to redesigning systems. Cradle to Cradle design has become a north star: rethinking products and supply chains from the ground up to move from a linear take-make-waste model to a genuinely circular one.
This is work I intend to spend the rest of my life doing. Building a legacy requires long term intentional development. The credentials, the experience and results are real. My thinking keeps sharpening. The conversations are underway. This is what I came for.
The future is Ultra
I’m training for my next marathon, which will be on the south rim of the Grand Canyon in 2026. My coach insists I’ll be running a 100-mile ultra with her by 2033. Wish me luck.
If you’re a runner, I know you relate - running is my meditation and exploration. I’m present when I run. My boundaries are tested while I train. My sense of awe flickers awake when I get to spend this time adventuring in nature. It has kept me grounded and invigorated - all I need is my Altra sneakers, my hydration pack and a mountain path to keep my sense of connection and aliveness.
More Deep Waters
If you’ve read my story, you know that my sanctuary is the ocean, and a full week or more of diving from a liveaboard in the middle of the ocean restores me. The Revillagigedo islands of the Mexican Pacific are calling me back. Though I've returned there many times, I took a hiatus for several years of coral reef diving in Indonesia and the Solomon Islands. Now I'm eager to return to the wildness of the large pelagics off these remote islands.