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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Greater New York City Area

- Oversee EGA’s membership of 200+ foundations by building key relationships, cultivating prospective members, and addressing high-level needs.- Work with leaders and partners in the space to build and encourage growth of relevant funder collaboratives, especially as they intersect with key identified priorities such as climate, energy, health & justice, and fresh water.- Enact strategic framework by helping to direct workplans for institutional Board Priority Themes: Catalyzing Action; Constituency Building; Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Justice; Tracking the Field- Manage development of organization’s primary revenue sources, ensuring revenue of $2 million+ annually in membership and programmatic grants; including grant strategy development and evaluation/reporting processes. - Serve as key staff in Board engagement, including oversight of strategic membership recruitment and retention processes, and cultivation of dynamic board candidates to ensure continued organizational growth.- Manage program staff – including mapping out workplans, providing direction, and giving feedback/assessment.

Greater New York City Area

- Organized and worked closely with funder-member program committees to inform strategy on programmatic goals, including content curation of annual EGA Policy Briefings and Retreats. - Project manager and lead author for annual Tracking the Field reports, analyzing trends in environmental grantmaking. Highlights include volume 6 of EGA’s Tracking the Field, volumes 1 & 2 of the Blue Sky Funders Forum Report, and volumes 1-3 of the Great Lakes Funder Collaborative Report.- Large-audience (100-500) speaking opportunities included: EGA-wide events, including EGA Retreat 2019 main stage; Beyond Fracking Meeting; Funder Briefing on Freshwater; 2017-2019 Health and Environmental Funders’ Annual Conferences; and co-moderation of several funder-curated webinars.

Greater New York City Area

- With funder committees and colleagues, managed curation of content for sessions at EGA flagship events, regional/issue-based convenings, and webinars. - Served as intermediary to multi-year funder collaboratives and campaigns.- Led creation and funding for the Funder Briefing on Freshwater attended by 150+ funders, which resulted in ongoing collaboration. Led publication of Freshwater Case Studies report in tandem.- Co-managed EGA’s program-related grant processes; managed fundraising and grant reports concerning freshwater funding activities.- Managed, devised workplans, and provided direction and feedback for team of Program Coordinators.

Greater New York City Area

- Revamped EGA’s communications plan, implementing new approaches to engage membership. - Improved online presence, including blog, and social media. Increased member-led webinars from 10 per year to 25+.- Supported key organizational goals and programmatic opportunities on events and engagements.

Greater New York City Area

- Designed and implemented new media strategies for clientele of large U.S. foundations and NGOs, primarily via social media, blog, and digital publication placements.- Built relationships with a network of digital and print journalists in U.S., Europe, Africa, and emerging markets to guide and ensure coverage of key issues. Supported work on talking points, media scans, pitches, and press releases.

Greater New York City Area

- Worked with three different client teams to co-produce a number of client-facing deliverables, including reports, graphic design projects, clip books, fact sheets and website elements.

Master Of Environmental Management (Del-Mem), 3.8

- Core Competencies: Climate & Energy; Watershed Management; Leadership & Program Management; Economics, Policy, & Law - Master’s Project.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Environmental Studies And Urban Studies (Double Major), 3.7

- Chancellor’s Grant Recipient 2007 - Internships: NYC Dept. of Urban Planning, Central Park Conservancy, Project for Public Spaces

Atlanta, Ga