Amy Petersen Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States

Providing nonprofit and social impact organizations resources, facilitation, and project management services to develop the strategy, processes, and tools needed to deliver impact for people and communities.

• CROSO is a non-profit organization with staff in the US and Uganda which facilitates education through post-secondary scholarships to former street children in Uganda.
• Serving as Vice President and currently as President, I support planning and maintaining financial accountability in service of achieving the organizational mission.
• As President of Board, during the transition of Founder & Executive Director of 16 years, I am leading strategic planning, supporting recruitment and hiring, and fostering continued stakeholder engagement.

• Leading Program Management team supporting international projects mitigating nutritional insecurity.
• Developing and implementing project management/program management processes and tools.
• Partnering with international partners to develop and implement locally-led projects to sustainably meet food and nutritional needs in remote settings.

• Managed a project to open an innovative pediatric practice serving hundreds of children and youth in a community lacking primary care providers, developing and implementing project plan and schedule.
• Led financial management, content creation, website development, and relationship building with dozens of stakeholders including government, Board of Directors, vendors, and non-profit partners.

• Coordinated award-winning, community-centred clinical COVID response, utilizing evidence-based decision-making to meet community needs, facilitating thousands of vaccinations across Minnesota.
• Collected and analysed large volumes of data, created weekly trend reports, developed proposals, and collaborated with dozens of internal and external partners to implement projects based on analysis.
• Managed a rapid response project with Minnesota Department of Health and Department of Human Services, distributing 500,000+ N95s across state, completing project in under a month.

• Translated disparate experience from preliminary research publications on Impact of COVID-19 on Child Well-Being into publication for educational practitioners during COVID.
• Collaborated with three researchers to produce annotated bibliography, literature review, and research-into-action brief and presented findings at UNICEF-facilitated webinar, here.

• Collaboratively developed and implemented protocols, processes, and systems in the PPE product & supplier vetting, supplier relations, engineering, and system administration teams. Trained volunteers and staff on.

• Managed rapid-response project for deployment of an e-commerce platform, distributing 6M+ units of personal protective equipment (PPE) during 2020.
• Coordinated with a dozen US-based stakeholders to define objectives and international software development team to develop and deploy platform.
• Operationalized system through hiring, training, and managing staff and volunteers.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Serve as licensed teacher in classes from kindergarten to high school in multiple districts in Twin Cites area.
• Deliver lesson plans as designed by classroom teacher, create and deliver lesson plans when required, manage classroom of 10 to 30 students across subjects and disciplines.
• Stopped when COVID-19 closed schools.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Implemented two-year change management program resulting in multi-million dollar sale of the business.
• Facilitated strategic planning with C-suite, management, and employees to set long-term goals.
• Broke down long-term objectives into achievable goals and implemented projects with business units to improve technical processes, communication, and management methods, resulting in efficiency gains, improved quality.

Kampala Uganda

• Led inclusive and collaborative evaluations of opportunities to improve adaptability of organization to ensure continued funding for three palliative care clinics in Uganda.
• Partnered with dozens of internal and external stakeholders to conduct feasibility study for a for-profit model, review budget needs, develop fundraising proposals, and revamp impact reporting.
• Managed awareness and fundraising events, including US Embassy in Kampala Volunteer Day and a health fair coordinating participation of Ministry of Health, care providers, and non-profits to provide information, health.

Kampala, Uganda

• Improved financial stability for five HIV/AIDs affected women through a livelihood project, providing financial literacy training and financing a candle making business, and secured US Embassy grant to expand project.
• Designed and implemented a project to transition a daycare/nursery to a primary school serving 40+ children, with a schedule for expanding educational services, a sustainable budget, and a bursary program, funded by.

• Research, analysis, writing and editing for variety of stakeholders.

• Refined the use of methodologies in newly developed analytic software.
• Author of white papers and various marketing materials.
• Served as primary initial sales contact, demonstrating the analytic capabilities of software.
• Developed and conducted comprehensive training program for the South African Ministry of Justice.

• Analysis using data mining, conflict modeling, systems thinking, and morphological analysis to develop case studies on international issues testing methodological appropriateness as well as pre-beta software.
• Assisted in two-week training workshop for Singapore’s National Security Coordination Centre, including developing user manual, syllabus and assignments for end-to-end training on functionality and methodologies of new.
• Attended and served as reporter for international conference for the National Security Coordination Centre — Prime Minister’s Office, Government of Singapore.

• Supported projects researching civil society and media in Lebanon and Middle East.
• Worked on project to understand parliamentary election of 2005, conducting focus groups and reporting on exit polls.
• Supported planning and management of international conference on media in the Middle East.

Master Of Arts, International Relations

Completed a Master degree including course work and a practicum focused on international development and humanitarian response, including.

Ba, Political Science, Middle East, Economics

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi and Golden Key Honor Society honor societiesSenior thesis on Pan-Syrianism and concept of Bilad as.