I am a lot of things, and I have stopped apologizing for that.

I am a Registered Dental Hygienist who has spent 22 years inside dental practices, starting as a front desk coordinator and dental assistant before earning my license in 2009. I am a USATF certified run coach and an endurance athlete who trains for half marathons while managing bilateral PAOs and taking notes on what it actually means to rebuild. I am a certified personal trainer and kettlebell instructor. I am a marketing professional who ran global campaigns at Strava and helped build some of the most innovative athlete community programs in endurance sport. I hold a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from University of Colorado Boulder with a 3.91 GPA, because I believe you cannot teach well if you have stopped learning. I am bilingual in English and Spanish. And I am a dog mom to two pups, Latte and Dulce, one who recently reminded me that recovery is not linear, a lesson I apply to training programs as much as to post-surgical protocols.

I live in Lafayette, Colorado, which is exactly the kind of town where you can run the trails in the morning, work from a coffee shop in the afternoon.

What ties all of it together is not a tidy narrative. It is a way of moving through the world. I am drawn to complex that other people have stopped asking questions about. I am energized by the moment when something that was broken starts to work. And I am most useful in the rooms where clinical knowledge, operational thinking, and human communication all need to be present at the same time.

Dentistry gave me the problem. Marketing gave me the tools. Athletics gave me the discipline. And 22 years of watching good people work inside broken systems gave me the reason to build something better.

That is what this work is.