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Impact Measurement & Data

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Ecosystem Services, Green Infrastructure

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Presentations (chronological)

  • Good Food Spotlight – competition judge (December 2018)
    Served as an investor judge for a competition of local food enterprises in New York City for Slow Money, NYC
  • “Ecosystem Markets: Business and Finance plans” (December 2018)
    In-person presentation to 20+ conservation professionals at the ACES (A Community on Ecosystem Services) conference in Washington, DC
  • “Conservation Finance: Considerations for Scale” (October 2018)
    In-person presentation to 20+ Presidio MBA candidates, as well as prospective students

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  • “Investing in Sustainable Aquaculture” (June 2018)
    Webinar presentation to 30+ representatives from family offices
  • “Land of Meraki – a New Way of Living” (June 2018)
    In person presentation to 30+ conservation finance professionals through the Kinship Foundation on a new model for eco-development based on a strategy in upstate New York
  • “Environmental Impact Assessment – Dishjoy” (January 2018)
    In person presentation to 30+ Microsoft employees about the environmental benefits of using an offsite dish service as compared to compostable dishware  
  • SOCAP 2017 “Syndicating for Good” (October 2017)
    In person panel presentation to 30+ impact investing professionals
  • CREO Member Meeting “Investing in Sustainable Aquaculture” (October 2017)
    In person moderated breakout panel presentation to 30+ family office professionals
  • CREO Member Meeting “Investing in Regenerative Agriculture” (October 2017)
    In person moderated breakout panel presentation to 30+ family office professionals
  • CREO “Sustainable Fisheries Scoping Panel” (September 2017)
    Webinar presentation to 25+ family office professionals
  • Yale School of Management alumni panel “Impact Investing” (August 2017)
    Webinar panel presentation to 50+ prospective MBA students
  • Financing the Future “Climate Finance and Private Capital” (June 2017)
    Presentation to 30+ investors and financial services professionals
  • Yale Center for Business and the Environment “Impact Measurement” (June 2017)
    Presentation to 20+ social impact startups       
  • EMBA women’s leadership panel with Ariana Bain (April 2017)
    Webinar presentation to 20+ prospective Yale MBA students
  • Connecticut Sustainable Business Council “Leading from Within” (March 2017)
    Presentation to 40+ local sustainable business leaders
  • EMBA Alumni Panel “Leading from Within” (February 2017)
    Panel presentation to prospective EMBA students
  • Yale “Green Bonds Roundtable” (May 2016)
    Presentation on Green Bonds Draft Methodology
    Audience: 30+ Investors, Issuers and Metrics Professionals
  • Natural Capital Course (April 2016)
    Guest speaker for online course in natural capital
    (Audience: 10+ students and professionals)
  • ESG, Impact and Investing Summit (March 2016)
    Co-chair of Event
    75+ Investors, NGOs, and Government Professionals
  • The Kinship Lens (January 2016)
    Panel: Introduction to Impact Investing
    Audience: 10+ conservation professionals
  • Low Carbon Investing Summit (June 2015)
    Panel: Measuring and Tracking Performance of Low Carbon Investments: Scoring, Metrics & Analytics
    Audience: 50+ Institutional and Individual Investors
  • Executive MBA Panel (May 2015)
    Panel: Admissions to the Executive MBA program       
    Audience: unknown (webinar)
  • The Kinship Lens (2015)
    Webinar: Exploring Scalable, Investible Conservation and Restoration Opportunities
    Audience: 80+ members of the Kinship network
  • SRI, ESG & Impact Investing Summit (March 2015)
    Panel: Looking at Growth, Competition, and Opportunities in Natural Resources Including Water, Solar, Wind, Food, and Infrastructure
    Audience: 100+ Institutional Investors
  • SRI, ESG & Impact Investing Summit (March 2015)
    Panel: Climate Risk & New Opportunities for Your Investment Portfolio: Aligning Your Investments for Better Financial Results and a Powerful Impact on the Environment (moderator)
    Audience: 100+ Institutional Investors
  • Saunder Business School (Vancouver, British Columbia) (March 2015)
    Presentation on body heat as a source of renewable energy
    Audience: 15+ MBA students as part of a study abroad experience
  • Commonfund (February 2015)
    Summarizing the nation’s first low carbon business plan case competition
    Audience: 40+ Commonfund employees
  • Property and Environmental Research Center (July 2014)
    How to drive more capital into land conservation efforts in the United States
    Audience: 30+ PERC fellows and academics focused on natural resource conservation
  • Kinship Fellowship (July 2013)
    Impact Investing with a focus on a ranchland conservation project in New Mexico
    Audience: 40+ international conservation professionals and Family Foundation members
  • Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program (REPI) Webinar (March 2013)
    Conservation Loans and Investments – Tools to Achieve REPI Success 
    Audience: 30+ land trust professionals and misc military professionals
  • NYU Social Innovation Summit (February 2013)
    Deconstructing and Measurement of Impact
    Audience: 80+ NYU MBA students and faculty, and social enterprise professionals
  • A Community on Ecosystem Services (ACES) Conference (December 2012)
    Unlocking Private Capital for Land Conservation & Rural Economic Development in the U.S.
    Audience: 30+ land trusts, conservation finance professionals, corporate landowners
  • Land Trust Alliance (LTA) Rally Annual Conference  (September 2012)
    The Use of Investment Capital in Conservation: Leverage in a Time of Scarce Resources
    Audience: 100+ land trusts and conservation finance professionals
  • Property and Environmental Research Center (PERC) (July 2012)
    Final fellowship presentation on a new investment tool: the Conservation Investment Note
    Audience: 50+ conservation finance and natural resource professionals
  • Property and Environmental Research Center Radio Interview (July 2012)
  • Unlocking private capital for land conservation through the Conservation Investment Note (2012)
  • Syndicated radio program out of New York City (2012)
    Audience: several million listeners
  • Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources webinar (September 2011)
    A Green vs. Gray Infrastructure Approach (case study in Portland, Maine)
    Audience: 10+ natural resource professionals from Wisconsin DNR
  • Southeast Land Trust Alliance Annual Conference (March 2011)
    Increasing Conservation Easements in the U.S. South Using PES and Term Easements
    Audience: 50+ land trusts and conservation finance professionals
  • Partnership for Southern Forestland Conservation meeting (January 2011)
    Integrating Ecosystem Services into Mainstream Forestry
    Audience: 20+ corporate landowners and conservation finance professionals
  • South Florida National Public Radio (October 2010)
    Interview about Protected Areas in South Florida
    Audience: general public
  • 3rd annual National Ecosystem Markets Conference (June 2010)
    Using Economic Incentives to Keep Forest as Forest in the U.S. South
    Audience: 80+ natural resource and conservation finance professionals
  • Carbon Canopy meeting (March 2010)
    Southern Forests for the Future project
    Audience: 10+ conservation professionals, corporate landowners, and Staples, Inc.
  • Southern Environmental Law Center – Southern Forests for the Future project (March 2009)
    Audience: 10+ conservation lawyers and GIS professionals

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