I look to bring all of the skills, knowledge and experience from my 15 years of experience in building performance, 10 years as an educator and 16 years in banking,finance and global securities processing to the board and community of NESEA. As a veteran In building performance I have held positions from Crew Leader and Project Manager in the field to Operations Manager and Chief Operations Officer in the office. All of these positions would inform my actions as a board member and community member of NESEA. I am well-versed in all levels of board activities having served in positions from board secretary to board chairperson for several organizations. I bring experience in subcommittee management, fundraising and governance for both local and national organizations.

I have been engaged as a supporter and member of the NESEA community for the last 14 years. In my early years in building performance I have volunteered at the tradeshow for Building Energy Boston, was an exhibitor at the BE tradeshow, as well as a panelist presenter. Locally I have attended NESEA Pro tours and in my previous role as Chief Operations Officer of Energia I participated in the Building Energy Bottom Lines BEBL group “Mighty Five” for the last several years. As a company member of NESEA I have supported and promoted its vision and mission.

I would like to continue to support and promote the mission of NESEA in New England. I believe that there are still too many businesses in our region doing weatherization work without truly understanding sustainability practices and building science principles. I feel very strongly that the NESEA vision for green building and the resilient built environment is one that needs to be more widely adopted for us to have a greater impact on climate change. Throughout many of my activities I have sought to promote diversity, climate justice and equity in the building trades. With the rapid greying of our skilled workforce I believe that the answer to our industry’s workforce challenges lies in solving this diversity issue. This is the passion that drives and informs my work at B.Alpha construction. It also fuels my volunteerism for local, state, regional and national green building and building performance organizations.

It has been my experience serving on multiple boards over these last 15 years that in one way or another they have all been challenged with meeting their diversity, equity and inclusion goals both as organizations, memberships and boards. I am most passionate about furthering this aspect of the NESEA mission. I believe that the intersection of climate justice and equity starts at the top of an organization and that the vision to “share – collaborate – learn” is the means to achieve these ends. The silver tsunami of retirements present an opportunity to reinvent the world with greater climate justice. In this regard I would like to work to broaden NESEA’s impact in and across all communities of our region.