Avary combines training as a genetic engineer and geobotanical field ecologist with an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise to lead impact-focused startups from idea to reality. She has worked on Impact Metrics with HIP Investor, the IFC, and other corporate clients. She is the co-founder of Impactalpha an Impact Media Enterprise. She was the CFO and CEO of The Happiness Institute (a community video production studio in San Francisco).  She has reincorporated her love of ecosystems through her role as Executive Director of Conveners.org serving the Impact Ecosystem by coordinating Impact Conveners and Impact Accelerators globally.  She has 4 years of soft-systems and complexity facilitation training, and has organized 40+ events in her role as President of the Dominican University of California Net Impact Chapter and President of the Net Impact San Francisco Professional Chapter.  Finally she has served on the leadership team of the Greenermind Summit for the last 5 years organizing a 100-person sustainability unconference in the Mendocino woodlands of California.