About me
I build and run environmental and civic programs inside public institutions. As Strategic Planner for Community Relations and Environmental Affairs at ACC's Center for Government & Civic Service, I own a civic event portfolio that has generated revenue equal to roughly 140 percent of the center's operating budget over eighteen months, and I am the point of contact for the elected officials, city and county staff, and nonprofit partners who come through our doors.
I founded the Central Texas Climate Summit, now in its second year, convening city and county officials, nonprofit leaders, and students from three institutions. I serve on the City of Austin's Open Government Partnership delegation, contributing to oversight of the Climate Equity Plan. And I founded the college's first student environmental program, which has run more than fourteen cleanups with adopt-a-street and adopt-a-river partnerships.
I'm based in Austin, Texas, and I came to this work through student government and environmental organizing. I also build the software these programs run on, because somebody had to fix the operational mess underneath it all and it turned out I liked being that somebody.
What I do
Program & Event Operations
Full lifecycle for public convenings: intake, contracts, compliance, user agreements, invoicing, run of show, and the follow-through after everyone goes home.
Partnerships & Coalitions
Bringing city and county officials, nonprofits, and institutions to the same table, and keeping them there. Summits, speaker series, and regional coalitions.
Policy & Reporting
Climate equity policy tracking, revenue and conversion reporting, grant writing, and the operational dashboards that let leadership see what is actually happening.
Systems That Run It
I build the tools behind the programs: intake platforms, databases, and websites. Every automated step requires a person to approve it before anything sends.
On the ground
Also available
Build Your Own Obsidian Vault
A 17-question interview that designs a note system around how you actually think, the seven Obsidian skills that cover most of what you will ever need, and the folder structure I run every day.
Resume
Education
Austin Community College
Dual associate degrees: Associate of Arts in Philosophy and Associate of Science in Environmental Science, both expected by the end of Spring 2027. Coursework in Philosophy of the Constitution, Technical Writing, Honors Public Speaking, Honors Texas Government, Honors U.S. History, Ethics, Social Problems. Transferring to The University of Texas at Austin.
Experience
Strategic Planner, Community Relations & Environmental Affairs · ACC Center for Government & Civic Service
Own the full civic event lifecycle: intake, walkthroughs, user agreements, contracts, compliance, and invoicing, generating revenue equal to roughly 140% of the center's operating budget over 18 months. Founded the Central Texas Issues Series (climate, legal-access, and journalism summits) and serve as primary point of contact for external clients, elected officials, city and county staff, and college leadership. Built the center's reporting layer and the intake platform behind it, with human review required before any message sends.
Committee Member, Economic Resilience & Workforce · Open Government Partnership, City of Austin Delegation
Contribute to oversight of Austin's Climate Equity Plan, aligning workforce and economic-resilience policy recommendations with city officials and civil-society partners.
Instructor, Generative AI in Public Service (GAPS) Internship · The Public Service Desk, with ACC & CGCS
Teach the inaugural 16-week cohort of ten interns building tools for public-sector and nonprofit clients, currently the ACC Bioscience Incubator. On the program leadership team; own curriculum, assignments, and facilitation, and coach interns through client discovery and the ethics of deploying new technology inside public institutions.
Strategic Planner & Internship Program Developer · Green Workforce Collaborative
Built internship pathways linking students with sustainability employers; co-hosted the Central Texas Climate Summit at CGCS and built municipal, nonprofit, and private-sector partnerships for repeatable internship operations.
Founder & President · Sustainability Club / Environmental Committee, ACC
Founded ACC's first student-driven cleanup program; 14+ campus and city cleanups with "adopt-a-street" / "adopt-a-river" partnerships. Built the club website end-to-end (Next.js, TypeScript, Cloudflare), including the Riverbat Exchange student-sharing platform. Volunteer of the Year (2025).
District Rep & Communications Lead · Student Government Association, ACC
Led the election committee behind the highest student-election turnout in ACC history; grew membership from 6 to 37 through redesigned outreach. Served on student panels advocating funding for the $100M Highland Athletic Center, now under construction.
Campus Organizer (ACC Lead) · MOVE Texas
ACC campus lead for the 2024 election cycle; ran a nonpartisan civic-engagement strategy across all ACC campuses and built student/faculty/community coalitions.
AI Evaluation Specialist · Handshake AI Fellowship
Contracted evaluation work for frontier AI labs: adversarial prompt construction designed to expose failure modes in model search and reasoning.
Certifications & Awards
Portfolio
Program and design work across civic, climate, and workforce organizations around Austin.
Blog
Writing on civic tech, automation for small orgs, and what I'm learning building it.
Austin Is Falling Behind on Its Climate Plan
Austin has 72 climate goals and isn't on pace to meet most of them. Through our work with the Open Government Partnership, a look at what's actually slipping, and what the city can still do this year.
Go Green: ACC's Sustainability Club
ACCENT's spring profile of the club: the community garden at Highland, campus cleanups, and the case for consistent action.
The Central Texas Climate Summit, Recapped
More than a hundred students, organizers, and policymakers spent a day at CGCS turning ideas into a regional plan for climate action.
More posts on the way. Send me topics you want me to write up.
Let's talk
[email protected]I'm currently looking at program and operations roles in public service: state agencies, city and county government, and the nonprofits that work alongside them. Also open to collaboration on a summit or convening, a coffee, or a question. If you're a small organization that needs the systems to run leaner, that's work I take on too.