This moment in time is critical to our future and I'm yearning to contribute more deeply, bringing my expertise as an architect building healthy and sustainable affordable housing. I believe a sustainable and even regenerative built environment is achievable and will bring this positive stance to all board work. For many years I've been rooting out barriers to healthy and sustainable building practices and have seen how norms can change quickly, particularly if all stakeholders’ concerns are understood. Therefore, I can creatively and attentively seek to enhance our growth and ability to share knowledge, which has given confidence to many to employ new strategies.

Since 2015 I've been an active member of NESEA. I was co-chair of the Building Energy NYC conference in 2020, a curator and presenter in 2021, and also for this year a curator and presenter. I've also participated in many of the amazing tours!

I've seen firsthand its impactful benefits to our industry. An organization of this caliber is absolutely essential to advance construction in a positive direction, toward sustainable energy practices for all. The candid, rigorous and honest solutions, advice, and approaches shared at NESEA have literally changed construction. Being a part of this Board and enhancing it's success would be an extremely effective undertaking, to help strengthen NESEA and accelerate advancements in the built environment.

The cross disciplinary nature of our collaboration is key to our success, as well as our focus on equity, rigor, and honesty of that collaboration. I will seek to support this by doing everything I can to exhibit these qualities and encourage others to have safe space to do so.