Born in Toronto, I've spent most of my life in the midwest, cultivating my love of dairy, lakes, and knowing my neighbor's names.

After graduating from the University of Michigan where I studied environmental studies and business, I moved to Cleveland with the help of an entrepreneurship fellowship (Venture for America). There, I led marketing and helped produce 200+ forums at The City Club of Cleveland. I then joined VFA HQ, leading entrepreneurship programs and funding, focusing on being the "friends and family round" for founders who don't access access to that type of capital. Interested in following where (and how) the money flows, I most recently joined Company Ventures in NYC, supporting values-based leaders through the Grand Central Tech Residency. 

I'm now putting my skills as a really really good generalist to work as a freelancer, working with mission-driven orgs that leverage their business models to create positive outcomes for their employees, customers, and communities.

What I can/have done:

Operations:

• OKR obsessed: create metric dashboards and infrastructure
• Develop SOP's, manuals, internal trainings, and onboarding processes
• Manage payroll, HR, headcount

Strategy:

• Research new markets
• Lead new initiatives: establish baseline metrics, timelines, and resource allocation
• Analyze and improve processes to reduce costs

People:

• Lead and create DEI initiatives
• Establish workplace culture and best practices
• Develop company values, vision, and mission

Talking to People

• Lead stakeholder management: customers, community, investors
• Conduct user-research and usability testing 
• Content creation: curriculum building, learning and development, marketing materials

Doing.

Projects, Volunteering, and Building.

Foundation.Studio
freelance UX Researcher
working with a Seattle based design studio, conducting user research for early stage startups.

 

Park Slope Food Coop
member
one of the the oldest and largest active food co-ops in the U.S., serving on the checkout and cheese processing shifts.
 

Cleveland Solar Cooperative
founding board member, finance director
brings residents together to finance, build, and collectively own clean energy infrastructure.
 

OPAWL
founding member
grassroots community to elevate the voices, visibility, and progressive leadership of Ohio AAPI women and nonbinary people.

Talking. 

Press, Panels, Hosting, and Moderating. 

Lily Topples The World, Cleveland International Film Festival, moderator for a conversation with professional domino artist, Lily Hevesh, and Filmmaker Jeremy Workman, following a sold out viewing of their documentary.

Seven Asian Americans in Cleveland on What Happens After the Atlanta Tragedy and a Year of Anti-Asian Hate During the Pandemic Cleveland Scene, interviewed for my role in organizing a rally to mourn the shooting in Atlanta.

Venture For America Demo Day, Host for 500+ attendee virtual event.

Cleveland Owns Partnership Video, sharing the power of Cleveland Owns and the Cleveland Solar Cooperative.

Learning.

Workshops and trainings

Racial Equity

Groundwater Training, Racial Equity Institute
2x participant, uses Groundwater metaphor to help practitioners at all levels internalize the reality that we live in a racially structured society, and that that is what causes racial inequity.
 

Behaviors of Inclusion, LifeLabs Learning
learned psychology of unconscious bias and its impact at work, learned small habits that improve 1-1 interactions, gatherings, meetings, feedback, and decisions.

LGBTQ 101, LGBT Center of Cleveland
build knowledge through understanding terminology and definitions, the importance of gender pronouns, and allyship.
 

Bystander Intervention Training, Right to Be
2x participant, empowers bystanders to intervene in anti-asian harassment through the 5 D's.

Addl Skill Building

RYT 200, Aum Yoga
received my 200 hour yoga teacher training in Hatha, Yin, and Vinyasa yoga.