I’m in my second year of service as a board member of the Colorado Green Building Guild. I’m the chair of the education committee, where I help organize educational and interactive events to bring green building strategies to a wider audience along the Front Range of Colorado.

I’m currently a project manager for high-end custom homes with a green building company in Boulder, Colorado. I have experience managing projects from 500k-3 million dollars with a huge variety of details and finishes. I transitioned from carpentry to management in summer of 2022.

I worked with the Housing Authority of Southeastern Utah as a Construction Assistant from 2020 to 2022 to build 9 affordable homes with the USDA Rural Initiative’s Mutual Self Help Program in Moab, Utah. Homeowners spend 30 hours a week cooperatively working on the homes of their neighbors and their own homes. I was responsible for teaching tools and construction techniques and managing day to day construction tasks underneath the construction supervisor. These future homeowners typically enter the program with no construction experience and I had the opportunity to teach them blocking, interior framing, window and door installation, metal and asphalt roofing, soffit and fascia installation, flooring, tiling, finish trim work and much more.

I did a full-time, six month internship with Community Rebuilds during the first phase of their Living Building Challenge Projects at Mill Creek. These 2 strawbale homes were part of an aggressive regenerative construction certification and included the first residentially permitted greywater kitchen sinks and composting toilets in the state of Utah. Kitchen cabinets were repurposed from a local school demolition, the showers are tadelakt and the living space has an earthen plaster floor. The wall systems are a combination of drywall, straw bale, plaster lathe, wattle and daub, cob, and pallet cob. The internship was “foundation to finish” and included all parts of the building process besides mechanicals installation. Check out this news coverage from the Moab Sun News.

The Moab Little Free Pride Library was a collaboration with Desirae Miller at her Adobe Garden Apothecary in Moab, UT. Almost all of the components were upcycled waste or found materials. The books were supplied by Back of Beyond Books and the paint job was finished by Des.

I spent a year as an AmeriCorps National Direct Construction Crew Lead with Habitat for Humanity MidOhio in Columbus, OH. I lead volunteers in the construction of 2-5 bedroom affordable residential homes in the Reeb-Hosack and Linden neighborhoods of Columbus. This included interior and exterior framing, blown-in and low-pressure spray foam insulation, window and door installation, vinyl siding, interior painting, click-lock flooring, cabinet and countertop installation, finish trim and landscaping. I was particularly proud to spend much of my time assisting with management of the Women Build project which was completed by at least 70 percent women and non-binary volunteers.