Work history
Consultant
How would you describe your time at Self employed?
Renewable Energy Focus
Building partnerships with local and regional agencies, scientific community and university faculty
Leveraging funding from multiple sources
Encouraging innovative strategies
Candidate
How would you describe your time at Congressional Campaign - CA-02?
With a small talented team, ran a grassroots campaign against a 22-year incumbent in California's most rural Congressional district. Achieved the highest percentage of votes (up 10%) against the incumbent party in 26 years, despite an R +12 voter registration disadvantage. Succeeded in moving the political environment within the district from hopelessness towards a likelihood of future success.
- Effectively utilized limited resources to implement grassroots, micro-targeted media campaign.
- Maximized media visibility through public appearances, an organized letter-writing campaign, strategically placed op-eds and blog posts and well-developed relationships with media.
- Built email and web networks that delivered both targeted tasks to a 10-county volunteer organization and effective messaging to the voting public and media.... 
Board Member - 2nd District
How would you describe your time at County of Trinity - Board o...?
A successful history of managing projects and campaigns.
These include:
- Developing a landmark statewide Climate Change Policy
Saving a rural hospital through voter-approved health district formation and local tax
- Establishing and expanding a nationally-recognized community forest
- Lifting a rural county from the brink of bankruptcy...
