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Founder: Thea Lemberger

M.S., Environmental Science. Thesis: Forest health 

Thea Lemberger is an environmental sustainability professional. 

Rooted in sports. Thea is a former collegiate and professional basketball player that grew up in the beach towns of Los Angeles. Born and raised in California, studying communications at UCLA, combined with a childhood full of the arts and poetry, led to a gritty, salty, & creative approach to sharing information. Thea discovered her passion for the natural world after stepping away from life as an athlete. Competitive athletics imprinted everlasting lessons; for example, understanding what it takes to reach the top of an industry, and how to replicate this in other areas of life.  

Always seeking new challenges. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” 

Thea was trained in system thinking approaches of environmental science, and with a holistic forest-to-product approach from researching and studying forest health at Oregon State. Thea has previously worked with The Hawaii Agricultural Research Center and the State of Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife on different projects. Thea studied the relationship between pathogen (fusarium oxysporum) and host in forest ecosystems, working to improve population survival of Acacia koa, a predominant forest tree species in the Hawaiian Islands. 

With a unique background in athletics, communications studies, forest health, environmental science, and a passion for the arts and humanities, Thea thrives in forming creative solutions and communicating with diverse stakeholders and audiences. Thea has worked along the entire value chain of landscape restoration, forest products, non-profit work, and also in ecological consulting, equipping her to formulate solutions across natural resource management and corporate social responsibility and sustainability. Out of all ecosystems, the forest is the place that she draws inspiration. 

The origins of Rosewood west. Nature is a master demonstrator of balance through opposites. The dynamic ecosystems of our planet depend on juxtapositions of light and dark, predator and prey, hot and cold, plant-harvest-regrowth, and destruction of natural disturbances with resilience and revival. Rosewood was born out of a desire to create balance, between business and nature, between sustainable development and reckless innovation, between technical complicated science and simple, fun ways to understand, our love for trees and love for wood, between renewable bio-based materials and ubiquity of non-renewable materials, and using and preserving in all kinds of natural places.