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Bridgewater

• Support and built the capacity of schools to meaningfully engage students in leadership and decision making using a Health Promoting Schools Framework. • Engage students ages 5-18 in workshops and processes that deepened their understanding of health and learning at school, improved critical thinking skills, involved them in decision making, and gave them agency within their school communities.• Administer $150,000 of grant funding to empower students to identify and facilitate projects relating to health in their school communities.• Facilitate and train staff to facilitate guy’s groups for grade 6-9 to model and promote healthy masculinity and address issues of sexual violence. • Support indigenous students through the development of land-based learning, specialized field trips, and the support of indigenous-centric school projects. • Developing a multi-sector network of youth engagement professionals and facilitated connection and collaboration between organizations.• As a public health employee, I support the provincial response to COVID 19 and developed new methods for data acquisition and organization to improve efficiency.

Stockholm, Sweden

• Designed and facilitated a series of workshops to train staff and create shared knowledge, understanding, and language for topics including strategic sustainable development, systems change, and complexity and mobilized diverse stakeholders through establishing a shared vision and purpose through a facilitated process.• Conducted a baseline assessment of the organization's social and ecological sustainability, decision-making processes, and network by establishing indicator sets for monitoring success, and assessing opportunities for impact.• Convened a diverse group of stakeholders and designed and facilitated an ideation process, informed by social innovation approaches, generating more than 400 unique and impactful ideas.• Designed a prioritization process to select the most impactful actions given the organization’s values and needs and co-created and wrote a document outlining 15 detailed actions for implementing social and ecological sustainability in the second tier Hockey league of Sweden.• Used Results Based Management to assure continued success and monitoring of results.

Edmonton, Canada Area

• Worked remotely and in laboratory to assist a PHD project studying how mine development in the Canadian tar sands affect Bison populations.

Doha, Qatar

• Advised Blue Pearl in their transition to the lead outdoor education provider in Qatar specifically with regards to improving sustainable practices and integrating environmental science into educational programming.• Developed and facilitated culturally appropriate educational and recreational programs for youth.

Bras D'Or Lake

• Created an implementation plan for a walking trail to circumnavigate the Bras d’or Lake in the Bras d’Or Lake Biosphere in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.• Worked within a small group to create a best practices handbook for trail implementation and a strategy to encourage community engagement and participation with the walking trail.

Halifax Ns

• Develop the office’s objectives and goals through student outreach and collaboration with DSUSO steering committee.• Organize or support sustainability themed events on campus such as Green Week and Green Gala.• Support students through project planning and grant applications.• Facilitate collaboration between sustainability based initiatives, student groups, student organizations and the Dalhousie institution to enhance relations.

Halifax, Canada Area

• Coordinate a yearlong project addressing student identified needs on campus regarding sexual violence prevention through a grant awarded by the Nova Scotia Sexual Violence Strategy.• Collaborate with experts, community groups and student groups to identify issues on campus regarding sexual violence and design a series of workshops to address these issues with the student body.

Halifax Ns

• Deliver the tutorial portion of this second year university course by facilitating sustainability based discussions and various in-class activities.• Teach topics including conservation, environmental policy, and history of sustainability providing a holistic perspective to environmental issues.• Use interactive, hands-on learning experience and facilitated discussion to supplement SUST2001 course material.

Kempt, Ns

• Facilitate Creel Census surveys which includes angler surveys and invasive fish species assessments to examine fishery health in the Medway River. I assisted with the writing and editing of the final report for this project.• Support endangered species research for Blanding Turtles and Ribbon snakes through radio tracking, turtle and snake surveys, and turtle nesting observation and protection.• Supported Brad Toms in completing the Brier Island baseline Herring Gull survey through a comprehensive gull nest and egg survey in 2016.• Attend markets and community events to educate visitors regarding MTRI, species at risk, and particularly monarch butterflies.• Survey loon pairs to identify individuals through banding observation and nest location.• Build and establish loon platforms in lakes that are recognized as suitable nesting habitats.

Halifax Ns

• Organized and facilitated nine different camp programs, in residential and day-camp settings encouraging a love and respect for nature through outdoor education.• Coordinated the AEC trails project in which I maintained trails in 24 provincial parks and hosted community events throughout the HRM where I managed, supported, and trained youth leader volunteers to facilitate activity based trail hikes enabling youth to facilitate outdoor activities for community members.• Encourage a love, respect and sense of stewardship for nature by creating a fun, safe learning space for youth and teach them canoeing, hiking, and outdoor survival skills.• Provided evaluations for high school students, offering constructive criticism, positive reinforcement, and a graded evaluation for their teachers.

Halifax Ns

• Develop project objectives and goals through facilitated discussions, creating partnerships various stakeholders, and developing an informed strategy allowing the project to provide youth with free tickets to concerts and to create more diversified concert audiences.• Perform administrative tasks such as operational logistics, maintaining financial records, managing budgets, communications, clerical tasks, file maintenance, and data processing to ensure the efficient and organized management of everyday activities. • Manage small group of student volunteers in promoting live music to peers to increase student interest in the project.• Perform ongoing project evaluations ensuring all reports include up-to-date, inclusive information informing future practice for the project.• Worked alongside a mentoring executive director, a committee, and board of governors to ensure oversight throughout the project.• Successfully completed various grant applications to fund the project with support from various mentors.

Leysin, Switzerland

• Taught language, outdoor survival, orienteering, trekking, and climbing skills to 9-18 year old youth from all over the world.• Cultivated cross cultural relationships in youth with various first languages, cultural traditions and religious beliefs creating a positive multicultural experience.

Halifax Ns

 Collaboratively coordinated and supervised all Dalhousie FreeSchool events by supporting, organizing, promoting, and facilitating informal, trans-disciplinary, hands-on workshops providing Dalhousie students with personalized educational experiences. Engaged the Dalhousie and Halifax community by connecting individuals and local organizations creating a more diversified network for students.

Halifax Ns

 Encouraged scientific understanding through facilitation and participation in hands-on Science based activities such as science based birthday parties, and fun educational performances. Engaged and educated diverse groups of youth, teaching Nova Scotia curriculum and creating a safe, inclusive learning environment.

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