For over a decade, my primary work was leveraging mobile technology innovations to strengthen healthcare and education systems in "low resource settings" (i.e. "Developing" countries) with the University of Pennsylvania and partners in various countries, where I held the position of "Director of Innovation & Sustainable Development" at the Penn Center for Global Health. In 2020 I embarked on a professional pivot exploring low-cost, high impact innovations/technologies that improve the health of people and planet holistically, and have explored various roles and sectors/domains in different parts of the world... for example, I have a been a "One Health Consultant" for UPenn researchers, a "Biodiversity Informatics Consultant" for the Okavango Research Institute, a "Regenerative Landscaper" on Cape Cod with Terra Firma Permagardens, an "Ecosystem Restoration Consultant" on Cape Cod and in Colorado with Ecosystem Restoration Camps, a "Social Impact Professor" at Boston College business school, an "Impact Advisor & Nature-Based Solutions Researcher" for a Public Finance nonprofit, a member of a UN Biodiversity Modelling Working Group at the Santa Fe Institute, and am currently a co-founder of the "School of Wise Innovation" where we are experimenting with inner development and collectively sensemaking curricula for online and in-person retreats for entrepreneurs, innovators, and technologists.

I am sharing these details because I feel I am very much still seeking my "Primary Work" at this post-Upenn stage of my life... I would like to devote my professional energies to regenerating soils, souls, and society, and have decided that I would like to continue to be based in Northern New Mexico at this stage (for a few more years at least), but am exploring potential roles as an educator and facilitator, and seeking the right harmony of people/projects/programs to work within. I have enrolled in this TRP Program as well as the School of Lost Borders Wilderness Guide training program this year in order to continue to expand/evolve my knowledge, skills/tools, and professional community in this bioregion.

Educator, Facilitator, Researcher & Practitioner (I feel most somatically fulfilled getting my hands dirty cultivating soil and/or immersing in nature camping/climbing/guiding as opposed to engaging with screens, and am striving for a balance professionally). My year as a "Social Impact" professor at Boston College was formative, as I found fulfillment in learning and growing with my students, but also updating the curriculum to be more truthful of the Nondual nature of reality... for example, the curriculum I inherited featured the "Triple P" framework of Sustainability where People, Planet, and Profits were depicted as separate concepts that can overlap like a venn diagram. I created a module that updated the Triple P to reflect the truthful nested relationship of these concepts, where People are wholly within Planet, and Profits are wholly within the minds/imaginations of People (because they are fictional constructs and don'ts exist in reality.

This process struck a deep chord within me where I feel inspired to explore more opportunities in the educational space to teach/facilitate programs that help students to not only understand this nested/nondual truth intellectually, but also experientially through embodied experiences (e.g. silent meditation, vision fasts)

I admire institutions like Regenesis and School of Lost Borders that have been offering programs and cultivating community for decades at the edges/intersections of inner development and evolution/maturation of people/planet/place. My goals/aims are to learn and grow with these organizations and cohorts, and hope to achieve more clarity/cohesion on my "primary work" at this stage of of my life, in harmony with meaningful people/programs/places.

Being in active dialogue/interaction with Spirit/Mystery, as opposed to silent observation and feelings awe/wonder.

I have read countless books, taken online ecology courses, written research papers on "Nature-Based Solutions", and practiced permaculture/restoration/regeneration on farms and in communities around the world, but would like to root into Northern New Mexico as a Regenerative Practitioner and Wilderness Guide. I also have been advising at the intersection of financial systems and ecosystems (Natural Capital, Nature-Based Solutions, Carbon/Biodiversity Credits Financial schemes) and see an emerging opportunity for Regeneration and experiential programming for folks working in those spaces.

While working at UPenn I invested in a retirement fund, which I am currently living off of to supplement my inconsistent income streams as I explore these unconventional professional trajectories.

I have invested in myself by reading countless books, taking online courses, and volunteering with regenerative communities, as well as silent meditation retreats, vision fasts, and self-retreats since leaving UPenn.

Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens was formative for me, as I feel like the first step in self awareness and sense-making is observing/identifying what is objectively occurring in reality, and what is fiction/stories/delusions/constructs. Everything starts there, in my opinion.

I have practiced and studied Vipassana, Zen, and Nature-Based Rights of Passage lineages.

I have read all of Paul Hawkens books, including his most recent titled "Regeneration"

Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepherd, and conversations with him and his people have been formative.

I borrowed my climbing partner and regen mentor's hardcopy of The Permaculture Designers Manual by Bill Mollison and took comprehensive notes that I still refer to regularly.

Carl Sagan's and EO Wilson's books have also been influential.

Merlin Sheldrake's book "Entangled Life" has also been importantly influential more recently.

Nonduality and impermanence/change underpins everything, and sapiens as a distinct species has the power to choose to play a mutualistic/keystone species role in our respective ecosystems, or parasitic/invasive role. I believe that role is ultimately decided by the stories we tell ourselves at economic systemic levels (i.e. financial & legal stories), which are influenced by the stories we tell ourselves at the individual/relational levels.