One seam, across most scales.
Since 2007 I have worked where environmental ambition meets the institutions, markets, tools, and relationships that decide whether it becomes useful in practice. Nonprofit, academic, startup, and independent, in that order and sometimes at once.
2007–2019 · Build the field
Delta Institute and Loyola University Chicago
Developed and delivered farmer and landowner programs across the Midwest, secured more than $2 million in collaborative grants, and co-founded the Artisan Grain Collaborative and ReGenerate Illinois. Advanced conservation finance, soil carbon, fertilizer emissions work, regional food system partnerships, and strategy. Designed and taught Loyola's first undergraduate course in ecological economics.
2019–2020 · Make a new market operable
Nori
Co-led the Croplands Methodology, helped translate COMET-Farm science into software and market rules, and supported the first independently verified and transacted project.
2020–present · Work across the seams
Solving for Pattern and partner firms
Research, program and market design, grants, product and technology strategy, partnerships, sales, and implementation for climate, agriculture, carbon, and public benefit organizations.
Most recently, embedded strategy and systems work with Next Step Heating & Cooling in Skokie: business strategy, customer-facing translation, website architecture, and operating recommendations to accelerate residential electrification on Chicago's North Shore.
Selected work includes: American Farmland Trust, Argonne National Laboratory, Colorado Collaborative for Healthy Soils, Cquesta, Environmental Defense Fund, GeniHub, Green America, Hummingbird Technologies (now Agreena), Next Step Heating & Cooling, Soil in Formation, The Carbon Underground, and the U.S. Climate Alliance. Some engagements were delivered through Sierra View Solutions.
Finance taught me to follow value. Ecological economics taught me to ask what the ledger leaves out. Nineteen years in the work taught me that durable change depends on translation between people who rarely share the same map.
Bring me the stuck pattern.
A few sentences about what feels stuck is enough to start. I read every inquiry myself.
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