I've spent nearly twenty years asking what makes a place work for everyone.

I've been the creative director of a town, a publication, and a learning platform. Each time, someone handed me a whole thing that many people were building, and my job was to keep it on the rails and growing—establish the vision, write the briefs, and work alongside the teams executing them. At Pinewood Forest, now Trilith, that meant a 235-acre town: architecture, interiors, landscape, branding, events.

Now I work with landowners, developers, and families at the moment that matters most—before the plan is fixed. I assemble and lead the specialists a place needs to meet the brief, be regenerative, and be lovable.

The question underneath all of it: how do we cultivate flourishing—for the people in a place, the land it sits on, and everything that lives there? That question is what I read, write, and think about most. Some of that thinking is in Field Notes.

Background

  • Creative Director, Trilith (Pinewood Forest) — 235-acre new-urbanist town, Fayetteville, GA

  • Regenerative Practitioner Certificate — Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice

  • Harvard Graduate School of Design — Developing Sustainable Cities; Communication for Designers (audited)

  • Co-founder & Creative Director, If I Made — online learning platform for creatives

  • Creative Director, Once Wed — one of the most-read wedding publications of its era

  • Destination wedding planner — work published in Vogue, Elle, Martha Stewart

  • Residential architecture, interiors, and multifamily capital projects, 2020–present

  • Taught creative direction and design workshops internationally

  • Art & Anthropology — undergraduate

  • Significant travel experience

I started out designing destination weddings for people who'd seen everything. I loved creating amazing, complete experiences, but wanted to create experiences with that level of consideration for everyone, every day—not just for people on the Forbes List, and torn down after the weekend was over. I’m always asking: How can we all live more beautifully?