ABOUT ME

Passionate, curious individual. Voracious reader and avid photographer. Professional contradiction. Stubborn smartass. Defier of categorization. Bilingual. Optimist, designer and house concert host. Known to drop obscure references, correct your grammar and bake you a chocolate cake.

PHILOSOPHY

Be Honest. Underpromise and overdeliver. Leave things in a better condition than you found them. In god we trust; all others bring data.

"Always make new mistakes." —Esther Dyson
“It’s easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.”— Cliff Stoll
“One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.”—Wayne Gretzky

Interests

Energy efficiency, open government, bicycle advocacy, social entrepreneurship, civil liberties, independent music, intellectual property law, design, design thinking, good experience, community organizing, Canada.

• design
• concerts
• chocolate
• music
• entrepreneurship
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Good Will Hunting, The Barbarian Invasions, Playing by Heart, Remember the Titans

Books: The Omnivore's Dilemma, Natural Capitalism, Biomimicry, Freakonomics, Blink, The Cluetrain Manifesto, Moneyball, The Tipping Point, A People's History of the United States

Music: Luke Doucet, The Pocket Dwellers, The Weepies, Gary Jules, Samantha Murphy, Sarah Harmer, Steve Poltz, Kathleen Edwards, Gemma Hayes, Great Big Sea, Mike Schmid, Libbie Schrader, The Rescues, Sylvie Lewis, Hem, Sweet Talk Radio, Lindsay Mac, Jay Nash, Raining Jane, KT Tunstall, Vienna Teng, Jenny Owen Youngs. Tons more. I run a concert series.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Helped elect Barack Obama as president of the United States. I hadn't worked that hard on anything in a long, long time.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, France, Mexico, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States