I grew up ski racing on Mount Hood. This spring I stood near its Palmer Glacier with my daughter, and the year-round snow I raced on as a kid had turned to dirt and rock. Climate change has always felt personal to me. It's why I've spent my career helping people understand it.

I studied environmental journalism at Western Washington University, then spent six years at POWDER, rising from associate editor to Editor-in-Chief. There I made climate and public lands central to the magazine, and our team earned three National Magazine Award nominations. I went on to lead New Mexico Magazine, then spent five years at Avocado Green Brands, where I grew the company's magazine to more than a million readers and worked with legislators on clean energy policy.

Today I lead editorial work on sustainability communications for some of the world's largest companies. That work taught me how organizations actually talk about climate, and what it takes to make that talk credible.

What ties it together: I set the strategy, and I still do the work. I edit, write, and pitch. I know what makes a reporter open an email and what makes a reader finish a story.

I live in the Colorado mountains with my family. When I'm not working, I'm skiing glades in winter and riding singletrack through the aspens in summer.