Raised in Iowa’s Mississippi Valley, Shawn had a childhood filled with outdoor adventures and experiences that planted the seed for what would become a passionate commitment to respecting nature and all of its inhabitants. Her love of nature led her to Vermont to attend one of the nation’s top-ranked environmental law schools.
After graduating from law school in 1998, she began her real estate career with a prominent firm in Boston, where she worked on conservation assignments, intricate family planning projects, equitable partitions, and luxury estates. After seven years, Shawn’s entrepreneurial instinct took hold and she launched Earth Asset.
Shawn’s law background is complemented by more than fourteen years of land planning, appraising and transactional experience. She has analyzed and valued a wide range of real estate asset types, has been awarded assignments 1 – 445,000 acres in size, and routinely values properties in the $1 - $20-million range; she has over $700-million of real estate asset evaluation experience. In addition to her advisory services, Shawn has participated in marketing and sales projects totaling over $150-million. Her valuation and marketing participation resulted in several properties selling at record-setting prices.
Shawn’s work has taken her all over the continental USA, as well as abroad. Her clients include private landowners, land trusts, attorneys, financial advisors, wealth management and trust officers, educational institutions, municipalities, state and federal governmental agencies, corporations, and investment groups throughout the USA, as well as international non-governmental organizations, businesses and financial institutions.
Shawn is licensed as a broker in Vermont and Michigan. She is also a licensed Certified General Appraiser in several states, and an Associate Member of the Appraisal Institute.
Shawn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Iowa State University in 1995. In 1998, she received her Juris Doctor and Master of Studies in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School.
Shawn is passionate about good health, and considers herself a nutritarian and avid athlete. She loves long-distance and trail running, mountain biking, hiking, sea kayaking, rock climbing, backcountry skiing, snowshoeing and P90X. She also loves her newest piece of gear, her toe shoes. Most of all, Shawn loves spending time with her family at their home in Huntington where the sound of jazz and aroma of great cooking can be found!