I've spent more than forty years working at the intersection of mission and impact — and I still find it the most interesting place to be.

My career started with Clean Water Action — canvassing door to door, then moving into organizing, policy advocacy, and foundation fundraising across Washington DC, New England, and Eastern Pennsylvania. I learned how to listen, earn trust, and help communities use their voice. I also gained practical experience building organizations, developing programs, and securing the resources to sustain them. Those lessons are very much alive in how I work today.

Completing my graduate degree in Public Administration at the University of Pennsylvania gave me deep grounding in organizational strategy and building support within complex networks. That foundation was critical to my next role, program manager with the City of Columbus. I developed the Central Ohio Clean Fuels Coalition, whose advisory committee became the governing board of the nonprofit I founded in 2002: Clean Fuels Ohio.

Over two decades, Clean Fuels Ohio grew from a $50,000 startup into the largest coalition in the national Clean Cities and Communities network — 15 staff, more than $1 million in operating revenue, model programs replicated nationwide, and more than $50 million in grants and diversified revenue secured. In 2022, I took on a national role through DOE's Vehicle Technologies Office, leading efforts to strengthen and expand the CC&C network — developing 10 new coalitions across nine states and raising effectiveness across the network as a whole.

I started GoForth Partners because the organizations doing the most important work deserve a partner who has actually done that work — not someone observing from the outside, but someone who has built, led, funded, and strengthened organizations like yours.