About Me

I came to conservation writing through animals—not only the charismatic or endangered ones, but the ordinary, overlooked, and inconvenient ones: pigeons, chipmunks, insects, roadside animals, backyard birds, and the many lives that unfold beside us without much ceremony.

My background is in anthrozoology, environmental policy, and wildlife management, and my path has also been shaped by conservation fieldwork, years of work in organizational leadership, finance, operations, nonprofit settings, and local environmental service. My international experience and third culture kid upbringing bring another layer to that work: an interest in place, belonging, and the ways lives—human and otherwise—are shaped by the landscapes they move through.

That combination—part ecological curiosity, part administrative pragmatism, part stubborn affection for the more-than-human world—shapes the way I write. I’m interested in the stories that help people notice differently: how a garden becomes habitat, how a road becomes an ethical space, how a familiar animal becomes strange again, and how environmental knowledge takes root in the places we actually live.

I live with five pigeons, two dogs, and one very old mouse.