2025
Current Project Work
Carbon Takeback Obligation
The Carbon Takeback Obligation is an emerging policy idea that places responsibility for long-term carbon storage on the fossil fuel industry. In collaboration with American University under Dr. Wil Burns, I conducted desktop research into a range of existing economic structures — from producer responsibility models to sector-specific levies — to explore how they might be adapted for a carbon takeback framework. My focus was on understanding which strategies could strengthen public acceptance and make this policy more politically viable. The outcome of this work is a memo that distills complex economic approaches into a clear, comparative analysis that can help guide next steps for this promising climate solution.
2022 - 2023
Supported the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), the Ocean Protection Council (OPC), and the Fish and Game Commission (FGC) to design and implement an outreach strategy to communicate and connect with California’s ocean community about the MPA Decadal Management Review. Working with OPC and CDFW, together with a network of Key Communicators, our team built a two-way engagement strategy to help raise awareness and manage expectations ahead of the review. Additionally, we worked with California Native Nations to help inform the development of the Decadal Management Review report.
Strategic Earth supported the state’s engagement with Native Nations and the ocean community by identifying communication channels, distilling information about the Decadal Management Review, and planning and facilitating virtual events.
2023 - 2024
Designed the two-day agenda to foster increased awareness of West Coast Tribal cultural, historical, and Treaty rights and discussion on appropriate integration into the offshore wind energy planning process. Attendees had the opportunity to learn about and reflect on the East Coast's science and planning processes, and identify strategies and lessons learned to apply to West Coast regional coordination.
Provided space for WCOA members to have in-depth conversations on Tribal, state, and federal government priorities and needs for a coordinated regional approach and promote collaboration and action planning.
Supported the West Coast Ocean Alliance (WCOA) to design and facilitate a forum for Tribal, federal, and state member governments to engage with invited speakers to both: establish a foundational common understanding of key elements of science, planning, and management activities related to offshore wind energy, as well as create an initial framework to help define the Alliance’s role in supporting members with their offshore wind communication, collaboration, and coordination needs for improving science, planning, stewardship, and management efforts.
Planned, facilitated, and coordinated speakers to provide a foundational understanding of scientific research related to the impacts of offshore wind energy on coastal ecosystems and communities, followed by learning about West Coast policy and planning activities to define regional needs and inform intergovernmental coordination opportunities in the West Coast region.
West Coast Ocean Alliance (WCOA) Offshore Wind Summit
2022 - 2024
Lead the project management for an Ocean Conservancy team composed of fishery scientists and modelers from the Ocean Conservancy, University of Oxford, Arizona State University, and the University of Wisconsin with project management services to advance the development of a bioeconomic model of Eastern Pacific Tropical Tuna fisheries for evaluating the performance of management options in achieving long-term sustainability.
Provided facilitation and project management support for the Project Team to meet key deadlines and track core deliverables until completion. With an eye toward target audience perceptions and information accessibility, our team was also providing guidance on key messaging, framing, and flow for key external meetings.
Project Management for the Ocean Conservancy focused on Fisheries Modeling Development
2023 - 2025
Worked with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the Ocean Protection Council (OPC) to organize, convene, and facilitate a Community Working Group (CWG) that was representative of the various sectors and regions across California, including but not limited to Tribal representatives, NGOs, local businesses, academics, and harvesters. Over the course of multiple years the CWG informed the development of the KRMP focusing on cultural and community insights around a variety of topics including but not limited to restoration, ecosystem-based management, and harvest.
2022 - 2025
Assisted the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and California Ocean Protection Council in leading and facilitating a legislatively mandated Dungeness Crab Task Force (DCTF). This body included commercial and recreational fishing interests, processors, commercial passenger fishing vessels, non-governmental organizations, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and California Sea Grant.
Supported all aspects of the DCTF operations, including strategic planning, project management and coordination, research and drafting of technical and non-technical reports, policy navigation, and the facilitation of public meetings.
Project Work while at Strategic Earth
With a team organized by City Island Oyster Reef and their partner The Surfrider Foundation, over 500 oysters, 50+ mud crabs and vaseworms, and the occasional skilletfish, shrimp, mussel, and sea anemone were counted and catalogued for their ongoing Oyster Reef monitoring program.
City Island Oyster Reef started this monitoring program to assess the best location for a larger scale oyster reef installation. Each of the four sites is regularly checked each month to monitor a number of factors including, but not limited to growth, survivability, and biodiversity that the oyster reef is bringing back to Long Island Sound estuary. Oysters are also incredible filter feeders, cleaning the water from pollution, carbon dioxide, and can be natural protection for our shorelines from environmental disasters.
Oyster Cage and Biodiversity Educational Monitoring
2025
Volunteer Work
