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About Me

Location:
United States, Bellingham, WA
Current organization:
The Climate Project
Gender:
Female
I am:
Artist, Change Agent, Connector, Consultant, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Performer, Project manager
My website links:
WristRocks, Essentially Professional Business Consulting
Universities:
The Evergreen State College

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Sustainability, wearable art, design, job opportunities, how our brains work, business edutainment, Improvisational comedy for business a/o pleasure, jewelry design, innovation and entrepreneurship.

People don't know that I'm good at

Event coordination,

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    A comment on Conversation: What have you accomplished in response to a TEDTalk?

    Jun 19 2012: The biggest action I have taken was not immediate, but has been lasting. I now assign TED talks in all of my classes. I challenge students to start with one (I usually suggest Jill Bolte Taylor's 'Stroke of Insight,') and then to watch one a week in subjects they pick at random. Inspired by the TED talk on discipline cross-pollination, I suggest they watch them in subjects that have nothing to do with their own work or main interests as well. Many a student has told me it's changed their life. One started his daughter on them and she now downloads them regularly for her iPod. I think it may end up being one of the things I do as an adjunct college professor that stays with students the longest.

  • A comment on Talk: David Hoffman on losing everything

    Aug 14 2010: Some years back, I decided to fully organize myself for the first time ever. I went through everything in my home, sorted, packed like with like in boxes and got a storage unit. Put everything I didn't use regularly in it: treasures my mom and grandma had made me, first editions of a gazillion books - probably the only thing of accidental worth my mothers' family ever had, etc., etc., etc.

    Then I had a house fire. Put it out, at the expense of much of the skin on my right forearm and spatter burns all over my legs. While I was still debriding every day or every other day, the building of my storage unit burned to the ground.

    I'm with you. It was awful, but it was strangely liberating. In some freaky way I simultaneously was so grateful I'd not lost my house (mobile home, actually, that I'd been trying to sell. I thought the cat was indoors; otherwise I might have been tempted to just Walk. Out. The. Door.) and kind of wished I had. The clean slate-ness of it was oddly compelling.

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