I love my home state of Texas, but am drawn to LA's deep global communities and California's more equity-aware leadership. LA has deep transit scars and deserts running through it, with more momentum and urgency to address amidst the World Cup, Superbowl, and Olympics/Paralympics.

Like in Mexico City or Sao Paolo, vast human brilliance and public health erodes within the grind of daily transportation requirements. This erosion happens unequally along race and class lines. As the World Cup, Super Bowl, and Olympics push LA forward, it has the opportunity to change how its people move...and it has the media/education/government sophistication to help share those messages across the globe.

Personally, I would love to live in Mexico or Asia or the American South but my partner's work needs to stay in California. So LA is the perfect mix.

For starters: there's cybersecurity for technology, physical security around bodily harm, physical safety for transportation, operational security for managing information, geopolitical security for political risks. There are many more dimensions. I'm interested in how these all play together or tear apart.

For example: when you secure a sports venue with facial recognition technology that has deep societal bias programmed into it, that brings a mix of security impacts. How can we use the best technology and teams to make the world safer and more fair for people moving around LA?

Healing is about using this inflection point as an opportunity to improve justice, health, and memory for diverse groups within LA and the Olympics more broadly.

In academia I studied geopolitical security for cities, physical security for women's mobility, and data fragmentation for disaster simulations and transportation investment decision-making on three continents. These projects were themselves the products of external global partnerships, and suffered from their own data fragmentation!

After college, I supported emerging technology scale for the Tokyo 2020 games. We focused on IoT for covid and venue management, and the fallout of an autonomous bus accident.

Now I want to help LA bring it all together, for your big events and your big everyday.

I bring expertise in full-stack smart city solutions, plus working knowledge of the regulatory, social, and commercial frameworks that impact how people move around cities and how physical spaces and networks evolve securely.

Cities and media shape our concrete and imagined worlds, and LA pulls it all together. LA has the scale and spotlight to change how the world does mobility and safety, especially for cities heavily impacted by the Automotive industry's dominance in the 20th century. But the whole world is also, in a way, in LA: its deep global and hyperlocal cultures mean that if we can improve physical mobility for Los Angelans, we can improve how ideas move and people live. An LA where people spend less time and create less pollution in traffic? Imagine what LA can do if it's more connected to people and ideas and clean air rather than long painful traffic.

I look forward to exploring possible collaborations with you all, and to representing your work in the appropriate tone and vocabulary for each stakeholder across diverse industries and geographies.