Capital Projects Experience
I bring 25 years of experience to community infrastructure projects and a genuine excitement for the teams and leaders doing this work. I build relationships across government, nonprofit, and private sectors, align partners around shared goals, and find the path forward.
My tenure as an Executive Director was shaped by two major adaptive reuse projects I helped move from aspiration to reality, both of which required strategic planning, community engagement, public-private negotiation, historic preservation, and fundraising strategies that layered grass roots support, philanthropy, major gifts, local, state and federal grants, and in-kind contributions in ways that build trust and momentum.
TwispWorks
The 6.5-acre Twisp Ranger Station served the Methow Valley, in Washington State, for nearly 90 years before the Forest Service decommissioned it. Built in 1932 and anchored by three Civilian Conservation Corps structures from the Great Depression, the property represented an irreplaceable piece of the valley's history and a rare opportunity for community ownership.
As Executive Director of Methow Arts, I was on the leadership team that made acquisition possible, bringing together the Town of Twisp, Okanogan County, the Okanogan County Economic Alliance, the North Central Washington Economic Development District, the North Central Washington Community Foundation, the Seattle Foundation, USDA, the Washington State Arts Commission, the Department of Community Trade and Economic Development, and private family foundations. In 2009, the property was purchased through a competitive governmental auction and named TwispWorks, honoring the work ethic woven into both the place and its people.
Today, many of thew buildings have been renovated and the site functions as a vibrant, creative community hub for the Methow Valley, that continues to evolve.
Well planned public spaces don't just serve a place, they define it.
They hold its history, reflect its people, and set the course for the future. That happens when communities have real agency over the spaces that belong to them, and when the process is genuinely rooted in the people and place.
Transfer Warehouse
The Telluride Transfer Warehouse is a National Historic Landmark in the heart of downtown Telluride, Colorado that had sat locked, roofless, and deteriorating for nearly 50 years.
As Executive Director of Telluride Arts, I led the organization's purchase and stewardship of the building, assembling an extraordinary cross-sector coalition and guiding the project through a decade of planning, activation, and preservation work.
The partnership was wide and deliberate, including the Town of Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado Creative Industries, the State Historic Preservation Office, ArtSpace, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Park Service, and a broad base of individual donors.
Under Telluride Arts ownership, the Warehouse was fully activated, hosting thousands of events as a beloved open-air gathering place and community anchor. Over ten years, the project grew into a $13M asset with $4M secured for stabilization. That work was completed in 2024, on time and on budget, preserving the masonry walls and securing an irreplaceable piece of Telluride's architectural and cultural heritage that awaits its next chapter.