I am a Senior Project Manager for public projects. Currently I guide my teams (owners, design team, reviewers and contractors) through the complex process of design, design review, approval, contracts, construction and closeout.

I am the gatekeeper for all of the flow related to my projects and facilitate the work of the team.

My goal is to apply a more sustainable and regenerative approach to my projects moving forward for the rest of my career.

For the benefit of present and future generations including my children and grandchildren, I want to learn how to live my life in the most loving, regenerative way possible with the lightest footprint on the earth and my community as possible. Then I want to teach others what I learn.

Learning how to facilitate a more regenerative approach to my projects. Learning how to bring the team on board with this approach, starting with the owners with positive results at the end of my work. I then want to teach others this approach, perhaps facilitating a studio in my firm for this purpose.

I am LEED AP BD+C and LEED AP since 2013 and have facilitated an array of LEED projects. I am a member of the AIA COTE with my local chapter, I am on a committee that plans an annual symposium, 'AIA Asheville Climate-Adaptive Design Symposium: Where Building Science meets Climate Science.' I just finished my third year helping to plan and this was the most rewarding symposium yet.

I am amazed by the climate scientists we invite to our symposium. There work is so important and must be so difficult, I am inspired.
I really was impressed and moved by Bill Reed, who was the keynote at our symposium last fall. He inspired me to sign up for this training.
I sing in a womens social justice community choir. This group of women, the composers whose work we perform, and our audiences have impacted me greatly in my personal growth. My one voice cannot make the sounds that our choir can make as an amazing choral sound. It reminds me daily that I am one small part of a bigger whole. That speaks to me in a way that I hope regenerative practice will speak to me.
My sustainable design team in my company, of which I am a member. They are all younger than me and inspire me with their insight and dedication.

Make everything you do about love. That is harder than I ever thought. Also, have the humility to know that humans are part of bigger systems and everything we do impacts others and the earth in ways we do not understand.