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 specific exploration of systems of oppression based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status and language. One of my roles supported grantees' access to multiple local, regional, and statewide sessions. I served as the point of contact between statewide grantees, The Colorado Trust, and Transformative Alliances curriculum leaders, designers, and facilitators. After coaching toward successful local grassroots recruitment efforts, I worked alongside grantees to review previous events, communicate next steps, troubleshoot participant issues, adjust event accessibility and accommodations, and collect ongoing program data.During multi-day conventions, I served as a lead or supporting facilitator on topics like socioeconomic class cultures; "reverse" racism; historical oppression and resistance timelines on race, class, sex, gender in the U.S.; and more.

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 powerful multiracial movements that can win collective liberation. In the service of this vision, we organize, train and mentor white people to take collective action to end racism, war and empire, and to support efforts to build power in working-class communities of color.

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 appropriate plant life• 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 for people, and fair share. They form the foundation for permaculture design and are also found in most traditional societies."

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 social justice core concepts• 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 • Fostered healthy work culture to reduce employee burnout: regular case consultations, in-services, peer consultation model to process secondary trauma, professional development focus, clear and compassionate client and coworker boundaries

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 releases, coordinated events schedule, reserved locations for symposium and speaker lodging• 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.

Bachelor’S Degree, Sociology

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

Education record