I am Director of Sustainability

for the global repair resource iFixit.

I advocate for the Right to Repair, support internal sustainability goals,

and work on more-repairable laws and standards around the world.

A woman in glasses smiling and holding a tortoise — The world needs fixing.

I’ve come to believe that repair is deeply important to a more-sustainable future. But my path to my job as Director of Sustainability at iFixit was winding: I have a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition (University of Louisville, 2016) and for five years was an English professor at Arkansas State University. My work for iFixit surrounds that time. I started iFixit’s advocacy arm in 2012, wrote on a contract basis for the company through graduate school, and taught the iFixit technical writing project during my time as a professor; through that work, I came to believe that our collective future depends on more conscious consumption, including deeper care for the things we own, the resources we need to make them, and the many creatures with whom we share the planet—including Tammy, my Russian Desert Tortoise.
Tammy is 25 years old, loves bok choy and long walks in the garden, and will likely outlive me. She’s my daily reminder that we’ve each got a responsibility to leave our planet in better shape than we found it.