Career

Overview: Skills and Competencies

While manifold, my professional experience is united around the central matters of supporting my community in connecting to nature, deepening the relationship between people and place; and building resilience, encouraging responsibility, inspiring stewardship, and regenerating the earth through the regeneration of reciprocal relationships. I have worked towards these objectives through the development of  several major skills and competencies:

• Education

  • • Working as an interpretive guide

    • Managing educational projects 

    • Developing educational materials

• Writing

  • • Managing and editing literary publications

    • Producing multi-genre writing

    • Developing interpretive literature

• Agriculture

  • • Regenerative Agriculture consultant

    • Managing and executing day-to-day farm operations

    • Land stewardship

    • Project design and implementation

• Community development

  • • Serving on Fibershed's Equity Cohort

    • Supporting programs for food sovereignty and food insecurity

    • Volunteer recruitment and management

    • Organizational management, i.e. inventory, ordering, bookkeeping

    • Public-facing customer service and support

Goals

Like my personal experiences and academic studies up to this point, my career goals are many and reflect my diverse interest in working between and across established disciplines. As I envision myself expanding upon the interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities, I feel certain that graduate school is on the horizon. Graduate school feels like the next step toward further developing my praxis and teaching pedagogy.

Beyond graduate school, I envision myself as a writer, editor, or publisher working in the realm of eco-social justice movements. Or perhaps as an educator, working in environmental education or interpretation, or even as a professor in the field of environmental humanities more generally. I can also imagine myself guiding a community garden/cultural center that focuses on ecocultural healing arts. I can also see a future for myself working as an art therapist, horticultural therapist, or community liaison focused on public and/or environmental health by encouraging a deeper connection to the natural world.

The beauty of my BA in interdisciplinary studies is the widening of my visual field: I can see a thousand pathways forward, all of them promising. I am grateful for the freedom and flexibility that interdisciplinarity affords me; the feeling it engenders of not being tied to any pre-ordained pathway but allowing myself to open to, and be opened by, all the possibilities. 

I look forward to everything that comes next on this journey.