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Hood River, OR, US

Integral part of the HFHC team at HCWH, providing coordination support to the Northwest Regional project: Oregon Farm to Institution Collaborative (OFIC). Engaging internally with staff across the program and organizations (HCWH and Practice Greenhealth), externally with health care partners and allied organizations in the Pacific Northwest. Collaborate.

Manage all of Comunidades grants from prospecting, writing, reporting, and tracking. Have secured over $1,000,000 in grants for the organization and increased application rates three-fold. Comunidades is a social/environmental non-profit focused on fostering a civically engaged Latino community in the Columbia Gorge.

Hood River, Oregon, United States

Support administrative and programmatic functions for a non-profit focused on irrigation modernization in Western states. Innovate and maintain operational systems to support the scaling organization through periods of growth. Build strong relationships with team members and understand of working styles in order to develop effective systems for project.

Mosier, Oregon, United States

Planning strategy, timeline, and communications methods for a local cider company’s product expansion. Developing and executing tasks to expand markets and product interest in addition to contributing input to creative and product design. Doubled agritourism visitation rates by conceptualizing and creating multiple events to highlight new and existing.

Connecting with local, regional, and national non-profits, sponsors, and organizations related to environmental, planetary, and human health to bolster connectivity for our RYC fellows on university campuses. Lead as a key team member with strategy, fundraising, and organizational operations.

Herbicide-Free Campus is a campaign established in 2017 at UC Berkeley working to eliminate herbicide-use at schools. We have worked with over 45 universities across 15+ states and are expanding rapidly to various other states. My role was to recruit university students to take the movement to their campuses and provide them with resources and.

Southwest Washington

Implemented projects to increase food access outside of the emergency food system in rural communities such as a voucher system, community storytelling, food boxes, and long range food access planning. Utilized community based participatory research methods including surveying, interviewing, and participatory stakeholder mapping. Created, coordinated, and.

Hood River, Oregon, United States

-Played a key role in leading projects for a strategic network that supported community resilience including business recovery, increased visibility and tracking metrics for local hotels, restaurants, and points of interest through economic development partnerships.-Led the East Gorge Food Trail with more than 30 local businesses and the Lewis and Clark.

Oakland, CA

Worked on a biannual environmental philanthropy report. Researched and categorized grants, entering data, contacting members for grant information. Worked with a number of other affinity groups to create reports on more specific environmental issues, including freshwater, environmental education, environmental health& justice. Supported large scale member.

Member of the Network and Development team, working to contribute research and create partnerships for special projects. Worked on initial Snail of Approval certification and seed grant giving as well as organizational support. The mission of Slow Food is good, clean, and fair food--the organization supports hundreds of chapters nation-wide to expand.

San Francisco Bay Area

Serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA which is a full-time, 12-month national service program, whose members help build the capacity of nonprofit organizations and local government agencies to alleviate poverty. My position within the Learning and Evaluation Department of New Door Ventures, non-profit focused on economic opportunity for disadvantaged youth to.

San Francisco Bay Area

Independent Freelancer for Airbnb's Social Impact Experience team focused on using creativity and initiative to expand the Social Impact Experience host community in the San Francisco Bay Area.Tasked with identifying and guiding local initiatives, projects and nonprofits to create listings as potential hosts for social impact experiences in which.

Berkeley Hillel

Kitchen Manager and former intern at Berkeley Hillel. Responsible for planning, ordering and executing community meals (BBQ and Shabbat) twice a week for 100-200 students. Oversaw and coordinated a team of 8 interns who make the meals possible. Planned and programming for social justice initiative community meals and volunteering at various food banks in.

Berkeley

Assistant to a PhD student for research in the Environmental Studies, Management and Practices department surrounding water adaptation practices for beginning farmers in Siskiyou County, CA. Completing tasks such as transcribing interviews, compiling literature reviews and producing infographics and informational videos for farmers.

Santa Monica, CA

Program Intern assisting in the reporting and structural tasks surrounding the identification and promotion of effective waste diversion technologies and programs through conducting pilots and related research at multi-family dwellings. Utilized tools of outreach and connection research to engage and understand more about the compost world.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Intern for the founders of the travel impact start-up organization to track social and financial impact as well as support fundraising projects for participants. Managed crowd-funding campaigns, outreach projects and events planning alongside creating marketing materials for the non-profit wing.

Lincoln City, Oregon

Lead Counselor for the oldest group of campers-entering into 10th grade. Planned programming and events for the unit. Fed skills of creativity, responsibility, and excitement in my campers.

Helped run a 5 day summer camp teaching youth about gardening, healthy eating, sustainable practices Maintained various gardens for 20 hours a week during the summer; weeding, planting, harvesting and utilizing a variety of compost practices to ready the garden for the school year.

Master Of Science - Ms, Sustainable Food Systems & Food Policy

Bachelor’S Degree Of Arts And Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography, Graduated

Activities and Societies: Berkeley Hillel (Student Member of the Board of Executives, Kitchen Manager, Challah for Hunger) , Undergraduate.

Human Geography, Spanish

Education record

Activities and Societies: Treasurer of Junior/Senior Class, Water Polo, Philanthropic Youth Group, Photography TA, Foreign Exchange Club.