Hi! I'm an instructional designer currently based in Chicago, designing learning experiences at a consulting firm focused on market adoption of clean energy technologies. I build eLearning, virtual training, and curricula that turn dense regulatory and technical content into actionable educational experiences. Here is my resume.

My path here was a little winding. I studied English at Middlebury College, but spent most of my time in the design lab, taking as many design classes as I could, freelancing for small businesses, the architecture department, and the Middlebury Museum of Art, and completing an internship at a design studio in New York. I graduated during the pandemic, spending my last semester watching remote learning fail in real time, which turned out to be the best design brief I ever got.

After graduating, I landed at a tutoring company in Portland, Oregon, where being part of a small team meant I had real say in how we designed courses, materials, and processes. I loved applying design thinking to improve how people learned, but I kept coming back to climate change. I grew up in a tiny mountain town in Colorado, so the outdoors has always been central to my life: skiing, hiking, and, later, after living in Oregon and California, chasing waves on surf trips.

The turning point came when I attended a friend's electrical engineering PhD dissertation presentation on smart grid technology. I was struck by how much of the climate crisis felt like a learning crisis, a problem that touched everyone, but where almost nobody shared a common language for understanding it. That felt like an actionable opportunity to combine everything I cared about and has led me to my work today.

I'm interested in learning as a tool for systems change, particularly at the intersection of the climate crisis, ethical AI use, and designing for the public good. When I'm not designing, you can find me experimenting in the kitchen with a tricky recipe, on a yoga mat, or hunting down empty waves.