As an educator, based in experiential hands-on teaching, Chaden has developed curriculum and facilitated long-term and short-term residency programs for a variety of ages and populations in creativity and sculpture. Trained within the Wilderness Education Association, Mr. Halfhill has utilized his career in design and construction career as inspiration for young people, helping them discover potential within themselves. He has served on teaching rosters for the Iowa Arts Council, Metro Arts Alliance and Partners Unlimited, and most recently he help initiate artist training with regional conservationists during Metro Arts Alliance's launch of their Green Arts program.

Chaden Halfhill owns Silent Rivers, Inc., which has been providing award-winning design and renovation services for central Iowa for over 16 years. Mr. Halfhill and Silent Rivers' staff have been recognized for their innovative residential solutions as well as business stewardship, reinforced by induction into Remodeling Magazine's Big 50 award, and receipt of The Chrysalis Award's first National Contractor of the Year for community service and business leadership.

Mr. Halfhill co-founded the Center on Sustainable Communities, Iowa's educational resource for sustainable building, to help foster a green building community and marketplace where none existed.

No stranger to pushing the envelope, Chaden Halfhill established Indigo Dawn, LLC in 2006, as a green development firm dedicated to urban infill and existing building conversions. He initiated a high-performance mixed-use rehabilitation project, Green & Main, intended to pilot a best practices case study for historic masonry buildings in rural communities.