My understanding of place began on a working farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains, among cattle pastures, Christmas trees, and tobacco fields. My grandmother told time by the sun’s angle in the sky. The seasons shaped my family’s work. The land sustained it. Caring for a place meant understanding both what it could provide and what it needed in return.

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With undergraduate degrees in architecture and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, I grew into project leadership, spending more than 22 years in healthcare design, construction, and development. That work taught me that buildings can care for people the way the land cared for my family.

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Most recently, I led the development of a roughly $1B medical campus and served as Director of Sustainability and Climate Health. Both roles required bringing clinical needs, human experience, environmental goals, operational realities, and capital investment into alignment. They also showed me how much of a place’s effect on health is decided before design begins.

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I founded Origin of Well to extend that perspective across the places that shape our lives, so the health of people and land is part of the decisions, and the business case, from the very start.