About Trellis-Strategy
Inspired by the way a trellis supports and guides a plant's healthy growth, Trellis-Strategy helps organizations lift ideas off the ground and build lasting momentum.
With deep expertise in the water–energy nexus and a commitment to social equity, we support initiatives from launch through delivery, facilitating programs, managing projects, and translating vision into action through educational campaigns and community workshops.
With over a decade of experience working across the water-energy-food nexus, Trellis-Strategy brings practical, results-driven planning, facilitation, and organizational tools to every engagement.
Trellis-Strategy can support on an organizational level as well as on a project level.
Trellis-Strategy is a woman-owned, military spouse-owned small business.
Jamie Garrett, Founder and Owner
Jamie brings 15 years of experience and success across environmental sustainability initiatives. She excels at systematically organizing goals into clear, actionable steps. Jamie has worked across the nexus of energy-water-food including in renewable energy space with EVs, with cleantech start ups, on sustainable water infrastructure, and on creating more equitable and accessible food systems. She believes a comprehensive outlook across this nexus, as well as a collaborative approach across relevant initiatives, will yield the most impactful outcome.
Jamie has her BS in Business Administration from University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and her MBA from the UC San Diego Rady School of Management. She worked with the Milken Innovation Center developing financial models and catalyzing programs and partnerships for sustainable water infrastructure in Israel and California, and spearheaded business development strategies for OPTERRA, focusing on EV infrastructure, energy resiliency, and waste-to-energy growth initiatives. She serves as Secretary on Board of Directors for the Association of Women on Water, Energy, Environment (AWWEE), as co-chair for the Resiliency Working Group for San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative, as a board member for Cleantech San Diego, and has experience judging, evaluating, and advising cleantech startups, including for UC San Diego's Entrepreneurship Center, Cleantech Open, and LA Cleantech Incubator. Jamie also serves as Secretary on the City of San Diego's Climate Resiliency Advisory Board.
Jamie has a passion for growing, preparing, and sharing food with her community. Through her life she has spent time volunteering on farms, educating children about food and cooking, and has been engaged with organizations such as Slow Food, Coastal Roots Farm, and many local San Diego farmers markets. Jamie connects her work to this passion through "Balanced-Palate".
