Work With Me
Organizations working on climate adaptation, environmental governance, and disaster risk reduction face a persistent challenge in bridging the gap between rigorous evidence and real-world decisions. Closing that gap requires someone who has technical expertise, field experience, program management experience at scale, and published the research.
I bring 20 years of applied research, program leadership, and field experience to every engagement. I work at the intersection of research, governance, and practice with organizations and institutions that are aiming to achieve impactful outcomes. My work falls into three areas outlined in detail below: 1) Research & Program Leadership, 2) Consulting & Technical Advisory, and 3) Senior Roles & Fellowships.
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Working with me
Every engagement begins with a conversation. I want to understand what you are building, what is and is not working, and what success looks like for the communities and organizations your work is meant to serve. From there we can identify the specific form of support that makes the most sense.
I provide the same commitments to every engagement: intellectual rigor, practical honesty and integrity about what the evidence does and does not support. I maintain respect for community knowledge alongside scientific knowledge, and a long-term orientation toward building things that last rather than delivering outputs that satisfy a reporting requirement.
I am not the right fit for every organization or person. If your work is primarily about managing appearances and egos rather than meaningfully changing outcomes, or if community voice is just a program component rather than a commitment, we are probably not a good match. You are the right fit if you care about the evidence and the communities and environment your work is meant to serve.
I. RESEARCH & PROGRAM LEADERSHIP
I design and direct complex, cross-sector research and practice initiatives, which range from early-stage program design through implementation, monitoring, and strategic review. I have led multi-million-dollar international programs in collaboration with universities, governments, NGOs, and community practitioners across four continents. I know what it takes to build something that works at scale, and I know what the most common failure points look like before they become problems.
I work with organizations that are:
— Building or scaling research programs that focus on climate adaptation, environmental governance, disaster risk reduction, food systems, or community resilience
— Rethinking how their research translates into policy and practice
— Navigating the transition between program phases or organizational models
— Seeking a senior research leader with international experience and an established international research network
Specific services include:
II. CONSULTING & TECHNICAL ADVISORY
I provide strategic advisory and technical consulting to foundations, NGOs, international organizations, research institutes, and government agencies working on environmental and climate challenges. My value lies in my technical capacity and ability to move fluently between the world of rigorous evidence and the world of practical decision-making, and to help organizations do the same.
I am particularly useful when an organization is:
— Making strategic decisions about where to invest in environmental research or programming
— Trying to understand what the evidence actually says about a complex governance or adaptation challenge
— Designing or evaluating a program that needs to work in communities very different from the ones the organization knows best
— Navigating the equity and power dimensions of research partnerships with Global South institutions
— Building new approaches to knowledge translation and getting research findings into the hands of practitioners and decision-makers who can use them
Specific services include:
III. SENIOR ROLES & FELLOWSHIPS
In addition to independent consulting and advisory work, I am open to senior leadership opportunities within organizations whose mission aligns with mine. I offer a unique combination of field-grounded research expertise, significant mentorship experience of early career researchers, demonstrated capacity to build and manage complex programs at scale, and established networks across Global South universities, humanitarian organizations, and international funders.
I am particularly interested in opportunities with organizations that are:
— Building or scaling research programs at the intersection of climate adaptation, environmental governance, or disaster risk reduction
— Housed at a university, think tank, foundation, or NGO with a commitment to evidence-based programming in the Global South or in the western United States
— Open to a researcher who brings both a publication record and a program leadership track record, and who understands that rigorous scholarship and real-world impact can be pursued in tandem
I am open to remote, hybrid, or relocation depending on the opportunity. I am equally drawn to roles that build on my international experience and roles focused on the American West, where the environmental governance challenges are as complex and consequential as anywhere I have worked.
I am not currently seeking tenure-track or teaching-only academic appointments.
