My twenty-year career has spanned the healthcare, public education, and food sectors. I’ve taken a nonlinear path inspired by my interests, always finding myself with people who care deeply about others. My commitment to creating opportunities to show people they are valued, appreciated, and capable of growth is a unifying theme in my experiences. 

In 2017 I found a role that blended my backgrounds in public health and education, and allowed me to find creative answers to the question: how do we work with purpose and impact? I led workforce development initiatives for a healthcare nonprofit that supports more than 100 community-based primary care clinics in the Bay Area, California, working behind the scenes to support frontline healthcare workers. The programs and policies spearheaded during my tenure addressed systemic, organizational, team, and individual level interventions that improved retention and recruitment, and priortized purpose and impact.

Perceptive and encouraging by nature (and by plenty of practice, too), coaching is an intuitive fit for me. It offers me the opportunity to do what I love: notice patterns, be inquisitive, derive meaning from experience, and turn ideas into action.

I have two Master’s degrees – one in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and another in Math Education from St. John’s University. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Michigan. I was trained in coaching by The Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and will be accredited by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching in 2024. 

Aside from formal education and training, I’m endlessly curious about the human experience. I typically have a few books on the subject open at any given time (unless a character-driven novel has my attention - then little else matters). This year, I’m learning about humility, death and dying, focus and stillness, the spiritual heart, art and design, and the tarot. My own human experience has me planting roots in the Hudson Valley, New York after blooming in Oakland, California for over a decade.