Currently working towards  CSCA

There are roughly 5,000 ASCA-level auditors in the world. Fewer than 1,800 hold the CSCA, the highest credential issued by the only globally recognized body for social compliance auditors.

I’m in the examination series now. You’re catching me mid-ascent, which means you’re working with someone actively inside the hardest methodology this industry has.

Approximately 500 exist worldwide.

This is the consulting credential issued by Social Accountability International, the organization that wrote SA8000, the most rigorous social compliance standard on the planet.

I became one in April 2026. There are not many of us.

SA8000 is the standard. Living wage assessment is the part most auditors quietly skip because the math is uncomfortable.

I completed specific certification in assessing current wages against living wage benchmarks because that number is the whole point.

This is the international framework that governs how auditing itself is supposed to work.

Most auditors operate inside standards. I’m also certified in the methodology of auditing itself.

That’s the auditor’s auditor credential.

These are the certifications consumers see on labels and largely trust without knowing what they mean.

I’ve been trained to evaluate all of them. Combined, these standards cover the majority of what “ethically sourced” claims in food and textiles are actually built on.

Active since 2015

This is where it started. Wild harvest mushrooms. Christmas trees. A manila envelope in the mail and a lot of terrible coffee decisions on dirt roads. This includes three years focus on international imports and exports - I was really fascinated by it at one time and by now you can tell I tend to focus on things I find interesting.

Still active. Still relevant. The organic foundation is what made everything else make sense.

I have never offered death doula work as a service. I don't intend to, you can tell by now I travel too much.

But spend enough time in fields and you stop being surprised by it. Farmers aren't. Beekeepers aren't. Death is not the opposite of productive systems — it's part of the cycle that keeps them honest.

What the training gave me was a framework for what I already knew from the work: that the most important information in any room is usually the thing nobody has figured out how to say yet.

That travels into worker interviews. Into exit meetings. Into every system where the official version and the true version are not the same thing.

That credential lives here because it belongs here. You can learn more about this with a link to Doula CO-OP.