Natural resource and environmental policy, planning, and sustainability consultant with over twenty-five years of experience advancing practical approaches to supporting national, regional, and community initiatives, linking the protection and conservation of ecosystem services and biodiversity to economic and community well-being. Career focus in ecological economics and forest ecosystem valuation and environmental justice. Skilled in the following areas:

• Coordinating and conducting interdisciplinary research
• Federal land management planning & policy 
• Program development and management
• Facilitation of multi-stakeholder collaborative processes & public involvement
• Fundraising & grant administration
• Ecological economics, ecosystem valuation, and environmental justice policy analysis and development
• Elaboración de libros e informes sobre sostenibilidad para su publicación por organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG) y organismos públicos.
• Extensive travels in tropical rainforests of Latin America and Amazon basin and Southeast Asia and Borneo and strong knowledge of reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) plus co-benefits, climate change, and property rights for indigenous and local communities