I am an environmental researcher, architect, ecologist, and educator. My work focuses on carbon, climate change, urban design, building materials, and social justice.
Ecological problems are tough, thorny messes. I am interested in real-life, problems that don’t fit neatly into one disciplinary bucket; in complex systems that can’t really be understood by relying on one perspective. For this reason, my work straddles practice, research, and theory. It relies on scientific research, imagination, and a good deal of speculation. It relies completely on deep collaboration and teamwork.
I currently work as the LCA Practice Lead at C.Scale, a climate-tech startup democratizing access to whole-life carbon data and design strategy, where I lead research and implementation on whole-building LCA, benchmarking, and dynamic LCA for bio-based materials.
I am also a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design where I teach graduate classes on life cycle assessment, building materials, climate change, and urban ecology.
Previously, I spent five years as a senior researcher at the Carbon Leadership Forum, at the University of Washington, where I led the LCA data/methods/tools team and supported state and federal climate policy. Before that, I spent a decade in practice, as a Principal and Environmental Researcher at KieranTimberlake Architects where I helped lead the office’s research on embodied carbon, material health, and environmental impacts. I led the materials database development for Tally®, a custom LCA application that allows architects to calculate the environmental impacts of their building material choices.
My work investigates the interaction between the natural and constructed environment, including embodied carbon, life cycle assessment (LCA), urban ecology, landscape performance, supply chains, and toxicity of building materials. Combining a background in environmental science and architectural design, I aim to build bridges between research and practice, bringing data-driven analysis and topical research to complex design problems.
