#### A little about me I grew up in London in the French schooling system to American parents. As a kid, I was my parent’s translator at parent-teacher meetings, and have applied that philosophy elsewhere in my life. I spent my childhood summers in the northern woods of remote Wisconsin, in [Chequamagon National Forest](https://www.fs.usda.gov/r09/chequamegon-nicolet). This cultivated in me a bewilderment in and enchantment with nature and the beast she can be. You could say that nights tiptoeing beneath a sky opened wide to booming thunderstorms stuck with me. I attended Brown University where I embarked on an Independent Concentration in Philosophy, Politics and Economics with a focus on Sustainable Finance. In my introductory courses on economics, buffeted with trainings and readings in feminist philosophy, I was left perplexed by the mechanisms through which our economic system defines & derives ‘value’. The deeper I burrowed my head into academic literature, guided by the likes of [Marilyn Waring](https://www.ted.com/talks/marilyn_waring_the_unpaid_work_that_gdp_ignores_and_why_it_really_counts?language=en) and [Ralph Chami](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwigf0C6zxM), the more befuddled I became. These early years at Brown became the foundations of my desire to re-orient the capitalist perception of value. Through my career, I've cultivated my translator's mindset to bridge institutional finance with sustainability. At Ethic, I evolved from Sustainability Analyst to Chief of Staff, designing products for portfolio transparency while becoming the designated "gap-filler" for organizational challenges across the company. I explored tools, like [[Donor Advised Funds]], to deepen my understanding of systems thinking and alternative governance structures, revealing both conceptual and practical barriers to closing the nature financing gap. As a systems thinker, I recognize that transforming our economic (and cultural) relationship with nature requires not just new financial mechanisms, but entirely new narratives. I am fascinated by the application of systems thinking to portfolio design, indigenous ways of seeing and perceiving, alternative governance structures for giving and investment, and blended-capital tools. On runs, I think through the conceptual and practical problems that stand in the way of bridging the nature financing gap and reconnecting humans with nature. I am acutely aware of the need to tackle prevailing cultural beliefs, such as the schism between philanthropy and investing, to have material impacts on funding gaps. These story-based philosophies encumber our efforts to change the economic system for the better. We need to tell a new story, and I am keen to be a storyteller.