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Leading team of designers, developers, and content creators to achieve project goals and successfully deliver digital and brand for nonprofit clients, driving social, environmental, and economic justice through quality creative execution.

Remote, Usa

Following COVID, I transitioned into the part-time role of Strategic Advisor, providing expertise and guidance on program operations and growth, continued development of local leadership, and key partnerships and grants.

Weligama, Sri Lanka

Co-built a successful social enterprise on Sri Lanka’s South coast that leverages the ocean as a tool for women’s empowerment and environmental education. Responsibilities spanned across strategic planning, program development and growth, financial management, fundraising, operations, human resources, and communications.Through a weekly Swim & Surf Program, SeaSisters creates a safe space for Sri Lankan girls and women to enjoy the ocean, raise awareness of environmental challenges and influences mindsets around gender norms. To support this program, we sell ethically made products, and advocate for more culturally and environmentally responsible practices in surf tourism.

United States

• Managed and streamlined operations for EDF's Climate Resilient Food Systems team, identifying areas for process improvement and implementing solutions that increase the team's effectiveness.• Supported the team in better understanding and aligning their activities with iterative internal policies and processes.• Collaborated with Finance to track spending in alignment with budgets and goals. • Developed contracts and managed relationships with consultants and freelancers, enabling successful program results.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Participated in the organization's 3-year strategic planning process alongside the Executive team, revising the mission, vision, core objectives, and 5-year goals and designing a roadmap for achieving these goals within the comms department.• Led content and design projects across six global programs from inception through completion, including newsletters, case studies, impact reports, and briefs. • Executed projects and content outputs aligned with key messaging and adhered to timelines, budgets, branding, and core objectives. • Oversaw an evolving team of staff and freelancers in successful project execution.• Managed vendor relationships and related contracts, invoices, and expense reports.• Conducted an organization-wide communications audit to improve processes and cross-functional workflows and develop annual goals for program teams.

United States

• Iterated creative processes to optimize workflows, increase efficiency, and improve cross-functional clarity.• Oversaw creative projects through the entire life cycle: initiation, planning, execution, and closure; managed budgets, schedules, and deliverables and ensured each project was appropriately resourced and prioritized.• Onboarded a project management tool and trained the team in adoption.• Adapted to change in a quick-moving production environment.

United States

• Award-winning filmmaker and creative producer focused on social impact.• Led 30+ photo, video, and web design projects to raise awareness of global challenges and communicate clients' impact across sectors and topics, including climate change, ocean health, and women's empowerment. • Leveraged a background working across socio-economic issue areas to inform narratives and storytelling.• Developed proposals and created content while ensuring budgets, schedules, and deliverables were met and aligned with client expectations.

Hanoi, Vietnam

• Conducted 30+ qualitative interviews for the final evaluation of a 5-year project in rural, coastal Vietnam on 'Building Resilience to Disaster Risk in Ben Tre Province'.• Authored and designed 5 case studies on project impacts and lessons learned.• Contributed to developing a 5-year strategic roadmap for the climate change resilience team to improve rural communities' livelihoods.

Boston, Ma

• Worked cross-functionally to facilitate the rapid growth of a risk management software start-up from 5 to 20 employees in 2 years, assisting organizations in strategically prioritizing risks, requirements, and governance activities.• Generated $260K in revenue annually, contributing to the highest-performing years.• Developed a 2-week new hire training program and onboarded 15 employees.• Consulted prospective clients on the challenges and goals for their projects and guided them toward solutions that aligned with their concerns. • Led two website overhaul projects from planning, design and implementation.• Authored best-practice content around the services and products offered, including blog posts, one-pagers, and how-to guides.

Boston, Ma

Worked cross-functionally with the community engagement, information technology, and international operations teams. Assisted in launching a national community engagement initiative and training seminar, conducted monthly spending reports, and increased the efficiency of IT systems and operations.Partners In Health provides preferential health care and poverty alleviation for the poorest of the world's population through a community-based model that trains local health workers to create a lasting foundation rather than temporary relief.

Boston, Ma

Working within the Office of Administration and Resource Management (OARM) across the topics of sustainability, efficiency and community engagement. I conducted an internal waste audit in order to assess and reconstruct the Boston office's recycling program. Additionally, I created a database of food residual generators throughout New England to strengthen composting opportunities in the region.

Dominican Republic

Summer session through the Social Enterprise Institute at Northeastern University. Partnered with Esperañza International, a local microfinance institution, and INTEC, a local university. I conducted qualitative research, interviewing rural borrowers and analyzing data on loan effectiveness, and presented suggestions for improvement to the President of Esperañza.

Jamaica Plain, Boston, Ma

Conducted extensive research, organized country-wide conference calls, and wrote reports to assist the Executive Director with a campaign to ban the use of harmful flame retardant chemicals that are hazardous to the environment as well as human health.

Master’S Degree, International Development And Management (Lumid)

Bachelor’S Degree, Environmental Studies & International Affairs

Graduated Magna Cum Laude Minors in Business Administration and Social Entrepreneurship Dean's List, Board Member of NetImpact, GlobeMed.