Writer · Strategist · Adventurer

Everything
I choose
to be.

Governance, technology, and civic power — and the questions that live underneath all of it. Thirty years of seeing around corners and building what comes next.

"Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." Rainer Maria Rilke
Writing about governance, technology, and the civic life
Podcasting on Spreaker — the real conversations
Building Convexus — infrastructure for participatory democracy
Asking the questions that won't stay quiet
Strategic Consulting · Civic Technology · Writing & Podcasting · Bainbridge Island, Washington

Ideas that wouldn't stay quiet.

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Essay · Leadership

The quiet arithmetic of ecosystems

Why some regions compound and others keep starting over — and the one metric nobody is measuring.

Kitsap Business Magazine · 2026 Read →
Essay · Technology · Education

The CoderDojo movement: a farmers market in a drive-up world

On building something that asks more than people want to give — and why that's the whole point.

2018 Read →
Essay · Governance

Why ethics frameworks fail — and what makes them stick

Most governance failures are not failures of rules. They are failures of culture and the structures that make accountability real.

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A deep thinker
who builds things.

I have spent my career at the intersection of technology, governance, and community — often as the only woman of colour in the room, always as the one helping define what the room is capable of.

But I am also a reader, a questioner, an adventurer. Rilke. Annie Dillard. The way mathematics appears in nature without being asked to. These are the things that make sense of the rest.

The consulting, the civic tech, the writing, the podcasting — and before all of that, the businesses built and sold, the newsletters founded, the farmers markets, the Emmy Award swag bags. Some people know pieces. The work holds all of it.

More about me →
President & CEO · Professional Options LLC
Strategic consulting · Est. 1995 · Bainbridge Island, WA
Co-Founder · Convexus
Civic tech platform · Infrastructure for participatory democracy
Managing Partner · K2 Strategic Solutions
Partnership with Keating Consulting Service · 50+ combined years
BoardSource Certified Governance Trainer
First & only in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska & British Columbia
Cybersecurity Tech Accord · Signatory
With Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, Oracle, Meta and global partners
MITx Micromasters · Data, Economics & Development Policy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The real conversations.

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Leadership, strategy, governance, and the things that don't fit neatly into a consulting report. Available on Spreaker.

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