Drawing from a richly diverse personal, professional, and educational background, I provide a variety of services to support design and communication through multiple media.

 I come from a long line of teachers and Lutheran pastors, and thus was born and raised in a family that places high value in community service. I ventured out with a very general, technical education in Civil and Environmental Engineering at a university that emphasizes liberal arts. Since then I have continuously focused on environment and ecology, sustainability, project management, and now permaculture, as well as cultural and political studies. While fully capable of delving into details, I am drawn to broad subjects from which holistic and systematic understanding can be gained.

All living things are translators, and most of what I do is related to this. Translating vision into mission, mission into execution plan, observations into models, and models into designs . . .there are countless permutations.

I also translate Chinese into English!