Andy Coco, Mnrs Email & Phone Number

Colorado And Remote

With support from a major health foundation, Transformative Alliances, LLC, completed two 18 month cycles of a unique anti-oppression leadership development program for community organizers across Colorado.Community Leaders in Health Equity curriculum provided participants with a foundational framework for understanding equity and health equity, with.

The Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizer Training Project at Catalyst Project is a political education and leadership development program, designed to support the vision, strategy, and organizing skills of white activists in becoming accountable, principled anti-racist organizers building multiracial movements for justice.Catalyst Project helps to build.

Lafayette, Colorado

• Restored 43 acres of cooperatively-owned land over multiple seasons and years through research, observation, planning, and managing native and introduced plants
• Synthesized extension office resources, ecology and horticulture education, permaculture experience, and anecdotal and historical land data to restore former sewage leach fields into grassland full of locally.
• Developed and implemented responses to anticipated and surprise 30+ introduced and invasive species, allowing native plant life to flourish
• Conducted accessible, interactive ecology education sessions before leading ecological restoration practice groups, inspiring community members' renewed enthusiasm about local ecosystem’s wellness

Denver, CO

• Developed outreach, recruitment, online learning management, budget administration, classroom support, event planning for 14 sessions with 40+ students
• Collaborated with two primary curriculum facilitators and many rotating guest speakers and facilitators to create a seamless, professional learning environment outside the walls of formal education institutions
• What is permaculture? From Black Permaculture Network, "Permaculture is a design method for creating regenerative human settlement systems based in natural patterns and processes. Three ethics: care for the earth, care.

Boulder, CO And Longmont, CO

• Co-created and innovated curriculum for peer-to-peer learning workshops in topics like career development, personal finances, housing access/ home ownership, and County organizational development
• Facilitated dynamic workshops ranging 1 hour to 4 weeks in length, for diverse groups of 2-100 people
• Developed, supervised, and coordinated 9 workshop facilitator staff among 3 County-wide offices
• Orchestrated multiple interests and mobilize 500 person department resources (multiple grants funding, material, relationships, internal talent) to establish County-wide integrated services training curriculum with.
• Coordinated class locations, dates, times, and trainer availability for 900 workshops per year, utilizing Boulder County offices and community partner locations
• Cultivated feedback loops among referring partners, participants and trainers for sharing success stories, ongoing evaluation, and program change according to community need

Boulder, CO

• Hired, trained, supervised 4 positions within Basic Needs program; co-supervised 2 employees within Shelter and Front Desk programs
• Advocated program needs in annual budget process, retained ~$700,000 direct financial assistance stake; designed programmatic changes to better meet changing client needs
• Overhauled organization-wide documents cloud for navigation ease; wrote two position-specific manuals to serve as living, dynamic documents
• Provided high quality, friendly Strengths-Based case management for longer term housing clients, managed client complaints, mediated for client/ caseworker disputes
• Managed client information from multiple databases to inform grant proposals and grant reporting; served as database administrator for 24 person agency serving ~4,000 families annually
• Evaluated programming for efficiency, efficacy/ impact, and positive client experience; implemented changes to program processes for maximum clarity and staff buy-in; documented volunteer and staff procedures

Boulder, CO

• Provided leadership for four student staff members in Director's absence
• Developed initial content and edited design for LGBTQIA specific local and national resources website
• Represented GLBTQRC on Chancellor's Committee: identified needs and informed University policy impacts on GLBTQ communities to improve environment for GLBTQIA identified students and staff
• Executed detailed coordination for multi-day TRANSforming Gender Symposium: collaborated with student staff and other departments at CU, solicited sponsorships, designed and disseminated advertisements and press.
• Served as GLBTQRC "first contact" in fielding phone calls, resource requests, room reservation needs, student crises, and student staff issues

Boulder, CO

• Revitalized and facilitated development of anti-racism workshop
• Designed and distributed press releases, visual, written and web outreach materials
• Edited and distributed campus-wide multimedia feminist journal
• Developed and planned campus wide women's programs honoring intersecting identities

Master Of Natural Resources Stewardship - Mnrs, Ecology, 4.0

From CSU: The goal of ecological restoration is a stable and functioning ecosystem that can withstand stresses and provide ecosystem.

4.0

Preparation for graduate school. Relevant coursework: General Ecology; Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

Certificate, Horticultural Science, 4.0

Relevant coursework: Intro to Horticulture, Soil Science, Plant Propagation, Landscape Management, Woody Plants: Trees and Conifers.

Permaculture Design Consultant Certificate

112-hour course includes the core 72-hour internationally certified curriculum as well as a number of detailed breakout sessions and.

Bachelor’S Degree, Sociology

Activities and Societies: Student Government Diversity Commission, White on White: Acting to Dismantle Racism, Chancellor's Standing.

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