Nature-based Solutions
Forest Carbon Standards Assessment — Environmental Defense Fund (Current). An assessment of how leading forest management and carbon standards handle governance, verification oversight, and enforcement — informing recommendations for JREDD+. (Current)
A Carbon Standard Built Around Community Ownership — Equitable Earth. Co-designed the standards, quality framework, and auditing protocol — bringing conservation finance, through carbon markets, directly to Indigenous peoples and local land stewards, with verification protocols auditors can apply in the field.
REDD+ Due Diligence — Everland. Built and field-tested a due diligence framework linking forest conservation credits to community and ecological outcomes and the SDGs.
Community Participation in Practice — ISEAL Alliance. Developed an FPIC primer and implementation guidance on what meaningful community participation and consent look like in practice.
Measuring Impact at Landscape Scale — ISEAL and partners. Designed impact assessment frameworks for landscape-scale sustainability and conservation initiatives — building equity and ecological rigor into how outcomes are defined, tracked, and reported.
Forest Fuels to Biochar — Deschutes County, Oregon. Designed and facilitated a workshop - with 38 land managers, industry leaders, and legislators - on biochar as a strategy for managing biomass left over from wildfire mitigation and forest restoration — storing carbon, improving regional air quality, and lowering fire risk at once.
Sustainable Business
Wage Transparency at Scale — IDH. Early designer and technical lead for the Salary Matrix, a global platform used by hundreds of companies to understand and act on compensation across their supply chains.
The Business Case for Sustainability — Sustainable Food Lab. Developed indicators and monitoring protocol, and modeled returns on sustainable agriculture investments with several major U.S. food companies.
Supplier Verification — Aldi. Core partner in a collaborative supplier verification pilot on banana farms — building capacity and facilitating conversations among farm management, suppliers, traders, and worker representatives.
Turning Compliance Data into Learning — Fairtrade International. Built monitoring, evaluation, and learning guidance that turns audit conformance data into something an organization can learn from.
Textile Raw Material Standards — Textile Exchange. Advised and drafted revisions of the sustainable sourcing standard, moving it toward a risk-based approach built around continuous improvement.
Improving Returns for Sustainable Farmers — Living Income Community of Practice. Wrote several papers and guidance on sustainable income strategies for the smallholder agriculture programs of Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS).
Multi-Stakeholder Roadmapping in Sugarcane — CNV Internationaal. Drafted and facilitated the co-design of a roadmap to improve labor conditions and social performance in the Latin American sugarcane sector.
Audit Quality — Impact Buying Academy. Developed and delivered auditor training to dozens of auditors verifying against leading sustainable agriculture standards.
Civil Society Engagement Policy — Burton Snowboards. Developed the company’s civil society engagement policy in support of its Fair Labor Association Commitments.
From Commitment to Practice — AIM-Progress. Wrote the Living Wage Playbook used across 48 member companies — the practical distance between announcing a commitment and running one.
Verification Across a Global Collaboration — GIZ. Designed and led verification for a group of global grocery retailers that signed a commitment on social sustainability across agricultural supply chains.
