MY WORK
My work is focused on designing and executing innovative programs that enable organizations to achieve a strategic vision. I have experience developing programs and workshops that facilitate creative thinking and unconventional collaboration. I think strategically about communications and develop content to reach targeted audiences. I enjoy creating order out of chaos and implementing ideas.
Examples of recent activities and engagements are detailed below.
NASA’s LunaRecycle Challenge
Marshall Space Flight Center and Kennedy Space Center
I currently work with NASA Centennial Challenges on the design and management of NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge, a $3M two-track, two-phase competition focused on developing innovative recycling solutions for future NASA missions. The challenge was launched in September 2024 and the deadline to register and submit is March 31, 2025!
Data Center Sustainability Workshop
Santa Barbara, CA
In February 2024, I worked with Co2efficient to design and facilitate an interactive workshop exploring the Future of Data Center Sustainability. Representatives from various sectors of the data center industry brainstormed policies and practices to improve energy efficiency and sustainability of data centers.
Marshall Space Flight Center and Glenn Research Center
From 2019 through 2024, I worked with NASA Centennial Challenges to design and manage a $5 million, two-phase competition to solve key challenges in power transmission and energy storage for future missions to the Moon. On September 20, 2024 two finalists were awarded $1.5 million in prizes at Cleveland’s Great Lakes Science Center.
Washington, DC
In 2021, I led a research group at Co2efficient to develop an assessment of technologies that are being deployed for methane emissions measurement and monitoring.
EC-MAP Industrial Sector Launch Event
Washington, DC
In early 2020, I moderated a panel entitled “Digital Innovators' Role in Driving Demand for Decarbonization,” as part of the launch event for the EC-MAP white paper, The Role of Digitalization in Driving Demand for Industrial Decarbonization.
Lunar Power Ideation Workshop
Cleveland, OH
In September 2019, I worked with Frangione & Associates, the NASA Centennial Challenges Program, and NASA Glenn Research Center to design and facilitate a workshop to brainstorm focus area for a competition incentivizing energy technologies for next Moon missions. We gathered 40 professionals across government, industry, academia, and the investment community to identify key barriers and prize ideas to engage innovators across the energy and space sectors. This workshop contributed to NASA’s forthcoming Watts on the Moon Challenge.
EC-MAP Transportation and Power Sector Launch Events
Washington, DC
As a Senior Advisor to the Energy Consumer Market Alignment Project (EC-MAP), I have worked to develop and hone our mission, strategy, content, and outreach efforts. During 2018, we launched two white papers that I authored, focused on how digital technologies are transforming the transportation and power sectors—and how government can evolve to ensure consumers benefit from this transformation.
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator Artist in Residence (AIR) Program
Los Angeles, CA
After hearing a pitch at the LA Cleantech Incubator for a program that would bring together cleantech entrepreneurs and LA-based artists to collaborate on engaging communities around climate change and sustainability, I committed to helping make the idea a reality. Our success in fundraising and executing the program culminated in an exhibit of work created by the three selected artists in residence.
Powder River Energy Corporation Vision Story
Northeast Wyoming
When the CEO of a rural electric cooperative in Wyoming wanted to convince his board, staff, and membership of his vision to reimagine the business of delivering power, he decided to tell a story. He hired me to create a series of fictional scenarios and snapshots of life for power customers in Northeast Wyoming once the vision had been achieved. Parts of this story were then translated into an animated video and used to engage internal and external stakeholders and build support for the new strategic vision.
CO2nnect 2018
Jackson Hole, WY
For the Carbon Capture Coalition’s inaugural CO2nnect conference, I moderated a panel of innovators and investors in emerging carbon utilization solutions and educate participants about what could be possible in carbon innovation.
2017 Student Energy Summit
Merida, Mexico
In 2017, the XPRIZE Foundation partnered with Student Energy, a global charity building the next generation of energy leaders, to put on a workshop as part of the biannual International Student Energy Summit. I helped to design an “energy personality quiz” that engaged attendees seeking to participate in the workshop and were later used in exercises and activities in during the session.
New York Times
Energy for Tomorrow
Paris, France
In 2016, Mission Innovation partnered with the XPRIZE Foundation to offer an interactive workshop at the New York Times Energy for Tomorrow conference focused on how to use the prize model as a tool to catalyze clean energy innovation. I designed and facilitated a full day workshop for over 40 energy ministers and staff from more than 20 countries that had committed to double government R&D funding for clean energy over five years as part of its commitment to the Paris climate agreement.
XPRIZE Visioneering
Los Angeles, CA
In 2016, I was chosen as Bold Innovator to lead a team in designing a desalination XPRIZE to be presented at the XPRIZE Visioneering Summit. Our team created an interactive experience for leaders in tech, philanthropy, business, and entertainment attending the summit to learn about the challenges of access to clean water around the globe and how a prize could incentivize new solutions.