Summary

Passionate about developing best practices in ethical land stewardship, maintaining healthy relationship with food production, facilitating cultural connections through sovereignty, and strengthening local communities.
Inspired by my cultural connections to land and ancestral knowledge. My hands are in the soil and my mind is on passing on the gifts it provides to future generations.
Analytical leader with a knack for active listening, understanding team dynamics and designing supportive and collaborative work environments. Entrepreneurial, driven, and adaptable to evolving needs. A quick learner, especially with emerging technologies.
Over 12 years experience in program development, software engineering and IT implementations, team building, individual coaching, business operations, project planning, and management.
Proud systems and processes nerd who enjoys coaching others in organizing their work in ways that spark enthusiasm. I enjoy designing individualized workflows to improve the ways teams collaborate. We are stronger together!

Experience

May 2022 - Present | Metro | Farmland Stewardship Program Manager
Jan 2021 - May 2022 | Black Food Sovereignty Coalition
July 24th 2021 | Tilth Alliance | Guest speaker for the King County Soil and Water Stewardship Training
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021 | Precipitation Northwest | Board member & Secretary

June 2019 - Nov 2020 | Huron | Technical Consultant (Professional Services)
Aug 2017 - Feb 2019 | Cayuse | Full Stack Engineering Team Lead
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017 | Freelance Software Development
Jan 2016 – Aug 2016 | Code Fellows (now Alchemy Code Lab) | Teaching Assistant: ****Code 301