A life-long Salish Sea local raised with a deep respect for nature, I have always been fascinated by the beautiful intricacies of living forms, their relationships to each other, and the shifting impacts of human activity on biodiversity and landscape across history and cultures.

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Having studied and practiced traditional gardening, landscaping, organic farming, and permaculture throughout my life, in 2013 I finally devoted my professional training to restoration ecology in earnest. Since then I have served as a restoration field ecologist and technician in both public and private service, obtaining a field ecology professional certification from Western Washington University in 2022. Having witnessed innumerable conservation tragedies occur due to even the simplest well-intentioned decisions, my personal approach prioritizes mitigating risk to existing native biodiversity throughout all phases of a project, while enhancing benefits to wildlife.

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While native habitat restoration and invasive plant control have remained the technical focus of my work, the guiding principle of my practice is to help inspire in others a positive reimagining of our roles within the local ecologies of which we are all a part. By encouraging the appreciation and adoption of native plants (and by extension the diverse fauna that depend on them) in our landscapes, agriculture, and urban environments, we can help to restore not just the biodiversity and beauty of the landscape, but also our own collective and personal connections to the greater webs of life that sustain us.

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