Amanda Kohn Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Reading, MA

Greater Boston Area

• Managed Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness and climate action planning processes.
• Developed equitable public engagement strategies and diverse, audience-dependent content.
• Planned, facilitated, and drew input from public workshops and steering committee meetings.
• Conducted research and drafted toolkits or implementation roadmaps for municipal sustainability actions.

Greater Boston Area

• Produced a dataset of 100 community and child service data points for Greenfield, MA.
• Collated, organized, and mapped 1,340 entries from eight service providers’ lists.
• Mapped descriptive and hot spot analysis maps of child maltreatment across MA using ArcGIS toanalyze risks and targets for future funding.
• Launched an online map to provide Child Trust Family Centers accessible information to betterserve clients and make decisions.

Somerville, MA

I created four interactive tools to facilitate better decision-making by simplifying and visualizing the complexity of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. I presented this work twice at the United Nations Environment Management Group Nexus Dialogues in Geneva, Switzerland.Please click the links in the.pdf below to explore each visualization.

Medford, MA

• Coordinated outreach materials including co-authoring and editing a Planetizen blog publication,several advertisements, and a press release.
• Collected and managed contact information for over 50 people.
• Prepared materials leading to Tufts University’s approval as an American Institute of CertifiedPlanners’ Credit Maintenance Provider.
• Researched and proposed recommendations for advancing program goals.

Brookline, MA

• Applied project management and team leadership skills including collaborative decision making, communication, documentation, and logistical planning.
• Designed and implemented 8-week work program meeting 10 management objectives, while also achieving youth development goals for 6 teens.
• Generated standard operating procedures and recommendations for next year’s program.
• Develop original outreach initiatives geared towards teens, who were underrepresented in the established programming.

Eugene, Oregon Area

• Researched current mitigation strategies and developed recommendations to increase resiliency.
• Facilitated a water sector natural hazard risk assessment with several community experts.
• Updated the 2011 Marion County Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan under FEMA regulations in collaboration with graduate student team.http://www.co.marion.or.us/PW/EmergencyManagement/PublishingImages/Pages/default/VolumnI_D.

Eugene, Oregon Area

Brookline, MA

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

Master Of Science - Ms, Urban And Environmental Planning And Policy

Activities and Societies: Graduate Certificate: Water: Systems, Society, and Science Student Planning Association

Master'S Coursework, City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning

Activities and Societies: Student Advisory Board Representative, LiveMove: An Alternative Transportation Education Group, EPA RainWorks.

Bachelor'S Degree, Sociology, Biology, And Environmental Science

Activities and Societies: Children of Promise, College Adjustment Peer, Wilderness Orientation Leader, Peer Minister, Women's Leadership.