I was born and raised in Bozeman, MT, and spent a year abroad in Vorarlberg, Austria during high school through Rotary International’s Youth Exchange Program. In 2014, I moved to Missoula, MT and held multiple jobs in marketing and at local restaurants while attending university.

I graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Minor in Media Arts after three and a half years at the Davidson Honors College of the University of Montana. I focused my studies on environmental economics and documentary filmmaking. In 2017, my senior year, I spent the first six months as an intern in Cape Town, South Africa creating a documentary about renewable energy growth through Kalahari Film and Media. I wrote my economics thesis on the same topic and graduated the following fall.

I went on to work as a Field Organizer for the League of Conservation Voters (LCV). I organized hundreds of volunteers for half a dozen LCV-endorsed campaigns in Montana and Washington State during the 2018 midterm elections. I am especially proud of contributing to Dr. Kim Schreir’s successful run in WA-08 and Sen. John Tester’s re-election in Montana.

In 2019, I served as a crew member for the Montana Conservation Corps. I spent the vast majority of the year in backcountry areas across Montana and Idaho, including Yellowstone National Park, the Payette, Nez Perce-Clearwater, and Bitterroot National Forests, the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area and many more.

I served my second AmeriCorps term immediately afterward as the Volunteer Program Development VISTA for Home ReSource, a non-profit community sustainability center in Missoula. I designed and implemented long-term volunteer recruitment and training systems and boosted program capacity and impact despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shortly thereafter, I transitioned to a sales role at Submittable – a fast growing Missoula-based SaaS company. Submittable provides a top-rated social impact platform designed to improve even the most robust grants, fellowships, scholarships and corporate social responsibility programs.

Through 2023, I have been helping businesses file for a COVID-19 payroll tax credit program called the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERC). I currently operate as a self-employed expert in partnership with Lawrence Long. filing through his financial services firm, Compliant ERC.