First and foremost, I'm excited about Open Dollar's mission! I'm very familiar with its innerworkings, having written a number of their blog posts in my capacity as a freelance writer. I'm excited about the potential it has to transform the LST landscape and, in my role as Growth Manager at Tally, I'm extremely well-informed, connected, and familiar with the onchain governance ecosystem.

With a decade in crypto and about four years full-time working in the space, I'm very familiar with DeFi, crypto, and onchain governance. I worked for Index Coop for a few years as their Content Lead and one of the early members of the DAO, one of the only DAOs in the space at the time. I've also served as a delegate for Moonwell DAO since February 2022, most notably writing the proposal for their deployment on Base.

I'm interested first and foremost in decentralization. I'm very familiar with the negative impact centralization can have on an organization, especially one with the intent to be decentralized (Index Coop, as an example). I feel strongly about the need for protocols to be credibly neutral to encourage and foster growth on top of them. I also have experience trading and advising on treasury management and would support proposals that foster adequate diversification for long-term sustained growth of Open Dollar DAO.