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Naperville, Illinois, United States

Oversees existing local conservation programs including Nature Rx, Conservation @ Home and youth environmental education programs as well as developing and expanding the Foundation’s holistic community conservation approach, engagement, and offerings. Leads and manages day-to-day activities of staff and local community conservation programs. Advances the TCF strategic plan and builds organizational capacity to expand their community conservation work.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Collaboratively leads strategic planning, program implementation, and tracking and evaluation measures for the Field Museum's Keller Science Action Center's Chicago Region program. Primary tasks include staff supervision, fundraising, budget and financial management, outreach and communications, and supporting innovative partnerships that forward the Center's mission of ensuring that all Chicago communities and neighborhoods are connected to thriving, healthy nature that fosters resilience and quality of life for generations to come.

Chicago, Il

Managed the museum’s environmental education programs. Tasks included leading strategic planning, staff management, and was responsible for oversight and implementation of program budgets, fundraising, communications, reporting, program evaluation and expansion. Collaboratively designed and implemented professional development workshops for educators. Supported the development of high-quality environmental education service-learning curriculum; served on Mighty Acorns committee to adapt curriculum to the Next Gen. Science Standards and Common CoreFacilitated regional partnerships that provide in-depth, hands-on, locally-focused, environmental education for over 15,000 students annuallyLead regional Leave No Child Inside work: co-chairs the Chicago Wilderness Next Generation of Conservation Leaders Working Group and served on the Mighty Acorns Leadership Team in order to strategize how regional partners can best support youth in conservation

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Collaboratively led program design, strategic planning, and evaluationDeveloped multi-sector partnerships that expanded environmental education to 15,000 students annuallyResponsible for program finances including budgets development and management Contributed to fundraising including donor relations and grant writing Led the museum’s Youth Conservation Action programs; managed YCA program staff, planning, communications, evaluation and expansion

Chicago

Translated interviews and documents from Spanish to English for faculty research on Afro-Colombian communities, collective memory, and food sovereigntyConducted academic journal bibliographical searches to support research on topics such as participatory action research, school decentralization, critical pedagogy (popular education), and comparative educationSupported the development of a special issue of Research in Comparative International Education (RCIE, vol. 6, no. 1) on Girls and Young Women’s Education and Empowerment in Marginalized Regions of the World; summarized issue’s articles to support the writing of the introductory chapter

Bogota, Colombia

Planned and led educational delegations of U.S. citizens to war-torn regions of Colombia and Bolivia to learn about the social and environmental regional realities, foreign policies, and community-based solutionsDesigned grassroots educational materials that distilled complex foreign policies into everyday terminology for delegation participants to advocate for a peaceful resolution to the Colombian conflictSupported advocacy efforts in favor of human rights; developed up-to-date political analysis of Colombian politics and U.S. policy implications based on interviews with civil conflict victims, government officials, and social movement organizations

Chicago

• Led campaigns supporting Latin American workers organizing to improve working conditions in the garment, flower, and banana sectors• Regularly participated in high-profile meetings with governmental officials in the U.S. and Colombia to advocate for respect for international labor rights• Organized and led speaker tours with workers from Colombia and Mexico• Supported Congressional advocacy materials focusing on the promotion of the respect of worker rights

Master’S Degree, Social And Cultural Foundations In Education

Bachelors Of Science, Environmental Sciences

Bachelor Of Science, Environmental Science

Leader of the Student Environmental Alliance, Study Abroad in Costa Rica.