Projects

My current projects sit across applied work, research, writing and board service. They look different on the surface, but they all come back to the same pressure point: how institutions create, hide, protect or lose value.

IVA

IVA is my primary applied project.

IVA helps organizations identify where operational value is being delayed, duplicated, protected or lost across workflows, approvals, reporting structures, handoffs and decision systems.

The work is not built around alignment language. People and functions protect incentives, workloads, budgets, reporting obligations and authority. IVA starts from that reality instead of pretending shared goals automatically solve structural problems.

Doctoral Research

My doctoral work at the University of Illinois Springfield focuses on how federal tax policy reinforces financialization across sectors.

That research examines how policy, incentives and institutional structures shape what organizations treat as valuable, legitimate and worth protecting.

Public Writing

My writing gives me a place to work through the same patterns in public.

I write about organizations, overload, public administration, financialization, board finance, family, place and the consequences people carry when structures are badly designed.

Board Service

As Board Treasurer of 350 Chicago, I work on financial oversight, reporting, capacity and governance questions inside a live nonprofit environment.

That role matters because board finance is not just numbers. It is also timing, commitments, constraints, staff capacity, cash basis reporting, grant obligations and whether decision-makers can see enough to act responsibly.

Always Over Capacity

Always Over Capacity is a book project about overload, institutional pressure and the conditions that keep asking people to carry more than the structure can actually support.

The project is personal and institutional at the same time. That is the point. Overload is not only a workplace issue. It shows up in family life, health, money, memory and time.

What Connects the Work

I am not trying to build a scattered portfolio of unrelated projects. I am trying to understand and expose the recurring point where responsibility, authority, evidence and value stop lining up.

That point appears in organizations. It appears in public policy. It appears in board rooms. It appears in families. It appears when people keep adapting to structures that should have been changed long before they reached the breaking point.