• Curious, kind human and a good listener.

• Always learning something new and adjusting the way I think about the world.

• Happiest when working on meaningful projects that advance the common good and make people's lives easier.

• Triple bottom line (with the biggest emphasis on the first two): people, planet, profit.

• Data nerd. I love working with engineers, data scientists and highly technical people, and they seem to enjoy working with me, too, despite my humanities background. 

• Undergrad English major with a Master's in Library and Information Science: I care a lot about words and the power of efficient expression.

• I communicate and think visually: the right visual can create shared understanding among people with very different perspectives on a problem. Fun fact, I learned this is called a "boundary object."​

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Books I love and reference often:

• This Is Service Design Thinking by Stickdorn and Schneider

• This Is Service Design Doing by Stickdorn, Hormess, Lawrence and Schneider

• Just Enough Research by Erika Hall

• Testing Business Ideas by David J. Bland and Alex Osterwalder

• Mapping Experiences by Jim Kalbach

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Things I do for fun:

• Once upon a time, I was a touring musician in a feminist punk band, but I've temporarily hung up my guitar to raise some cute babies.

• Hikes in the abundant natural beauty around me in Asheville, NC

• Eternally questing for the perfect croissant

• Reading about child psychology and human development, and volunteering with young people. I love trying to understand the little ones around me.​

• Accepting that my taste in movies is insane: I vacillate between watching the worst action movies from the 80s/90s and criterion classics. Ingmar Bergman and Arnold Schwarzenegger are equally my dudes.