Board and Committee Experience

Board and committee Experience

I am currently on the Science and Knowledge Holder Board for Oceanic Global, and on the Impact Investment Committee for Seaworthy Collective.

I am on the Regional Board for Young Life for the California South Coast region - spanning from Orange County to the US/Mexico border, and the national Young Life board for younger women’s engagement and philanthropy (photo above from one of our biannual charity weekends I help organize). I have served with Young Life as a volunteer or as a committee member for almost 20 years and I recently won Young Life’s 2024 Young Professional of the Year Award.

I was previously on the Board of Directors for the The Climate Initiative, a non-partisan, solutions-oriented organization pushing to mobilize the nation’s youth in the fight against climate change; I am currently helping them develop curriculum around plastic pollution. I also served as a scientific advisor for Clear Blue Sea, a marine debris cleanup organization in San Diego, and for Plastics Credit Exchange, an innovative nonprofit based in the Philippines helping companies become plastic neutral. In graduate school I was on the leadership committee for Women and Minorities in Science at Scripps, and in undergrad I helped start Duke’s first student sustainability initiative organization.