Communities

Expe­ri­en­tial Education

I believe in expe­ri­en­tial edu­ca­tion and fos­ter­ing an appre­ci­ate for the nat­ural world in and out­side of the class­room.  I help orga­nize and lead wilder­ness trips for dis­ad­van­taged chil­dren in Sacra­mento through Inner City Out­ings. I also guide rock climb­ing, snow camp­ing, and back­pack­ing trips for col­lege stu­dents and the gen­eral pub­lic through Davis Out­door Adven­tures and through Shasta Moun­tain Guides.  I was intro­duced to out­door lead­er­ship and edu­ca­tion through Princeton’s ori­en­ta­tion pro­gram, Out­door Action, where I lead trips and trained lead­ers in both tech­ni­cal skills and group dynam­ics. (See my Out­door Guide C.V.)

Inten­tional Communities

I am inter­ested in sus­tain­able and coop­er­a­tive liv­ing. I am on the board of direc­tors of the non­profit Solar Com­mu­nity Hous­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (SCHA), which is ded­i­cated to encour­age and cre­ate com­mu­nity and respect for envi­ron­ment through afford­able, coop­er­a­tive hous­ing. SCHA owns two small coop­er­a­tive house­holds, I live at the Sun­wise Co-op. We are cur­rently cre­at­ing a green afford­able hous­ing coop­er­a­tive in down­town Davis that will pur­sue LEED cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.  I was pre­vi­ously a mem­ber of Brown Co-op.  Through coop­er­a­tives I have gained expe­ri­ence in non-profit lead­er­ship and man­age­ment, con­flict res­o­lu­tion, con­sen­sus decision-making and com­mu­nity engagement.

Open Sci­ence and Sci­en­tific Computing

I’m a found­ing mem­ber of the Davis Open Sci­ence group, which pro­motes aware­ness, tools, and com­mu­nity around issues such as open access pub­lish­ing, open source soft­ware, open note­book sci­ence, and open data.   I believe this makes large-scale, col­lab­o­ra­tive sci­ence pos­si­ble, ensures results are repro­ducible and increases the access of edu­ca­tors, policy-makers and tax­pay­ers to the process and results of sci­ence.  I’m an advi­sor for Mende­ley research net­works because I share it’s vision to pro­vide tools for more open and col­lab­o­ra­tive research.  I strive to make my research process trans­par­ent and repro­ducible through the prac­tice of Open Note­book Science.