I want our world to be safe, accessible, and fabulous for everyone today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.
(everyone means every person and every species)
After studying history in college and living in a well-organized 21 person house in Chicago, I moved to DC and found a rare gem — a non-teaching history job!
Since then, I’ve worked for dozens of nonprofits and companies around the US, always learning something along the way.
I left history for physics, planned a ton of conferences for scientists and then scored the job that changed my mind and life.
Next stop, green buildings and organizing hundreds of educational workshops so people who build buildings could learn how to build better buildings better.
During orientation on my first day at the U.S. Green Building Council, January 9, 2006, I took a (not very scientific) Ecological Footprint quiz to see “how many planets would be need to maintain my current lifestyle.”
The results blew my mind and have haunted and motivated me ever since.
From professional associations that have been around since the 1800s, like the American Historical Association and American Physical Society (well, 1899, but still) to local organizations working to improve the lives of people in a particular city or region, I’ve had a chance to work with and learn from thousands of brilliant people from around the world.
For the past two decades, most of my work, my writing, and my (intrusive) thoughts have been on our shared environment and how we can improve it for everyone — especially how we get to and from the places where we live, play, walk, sit, study, shop, work, and just exist.
So Far I’ve Worked With…
