Anna Perks Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Denver, CO

Perks Deconstruction offers selective deconstruction services for residential and commercial buildings in the Greater Denver Region. Our team systematically disassembles buildings in order to maximize the salvage and recycle value of the materials.By utilizing tax incentives, building owners can offset the cost of deconstruction and feel great by sending.

• Advance community educational and art infrastructure programs in the greater Rockford, IL region.
• Lead foundation's effort to maximize its impact through strengthening community relationships, creating a framework to measure its impact, and selecting projects that fulfill the organization's mission.

Greater Denver Area

• Improves organizational effectiveness, reduces environmental impact of businesses, and builds connectivity among employees.

Denver, CO

• Led corporate social responsibility planning and initiatives as well as advanced strategic partnerships with suppliers, outsourcing manufacturers, and global customers
• Guided business’ operation to reduce greenhouse gases and led company to B Corp certification
• Built financial models to analyze risk and to determine business strategy and product market alignment

Greater Denver Area

• Part-time instructor for Cottonwood Institute.
• Taught elementary through college aged students about a variety of outdoor education topics and provide community service learning opportunities.

Boulder, CO

• Advised over 200 businesses each year on energy, transportation, zero waste, and stormwater measures. Outcome: 40% of advising services resulted in project implementation in 2016
• Conducted assessments for businesses to support energy efficiency upgrades as part of Partners for a Clean Environment. Outcome: reduced electricity use by over 300,000 kWh and 70% participation in 2016
• Recruited new businesses, track and evaluate program progress and greenhouse gas reductions. Outcome: 365 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent saved
• Lead customized zero waste and energy efficiency trainings for business owners and employees. Outcome: educated more than 240 people

Lakewood, Colorado

Boulder, CO

• Managed the 2014 Zero Waste events department and utilized Salesforce to re-engage 600+ volunteer network
• Promoted event program on social media and maintained event’s webpage
• Prepared departmental budget, contracts, and invoices
• Established sponsorship opportunities and raised $10,000 for program
• Consulted 60+ medium size events and organized 42 large public Zero Waste events
• Produced monthly volunteer e-newsletters sent to 10,000 contacts, wrote over 40 campaign alerts to activist network, and answered a daily recycling hotline on the phone

Estes Park, CO

• Instilled leadership, responsibility, and positive ideals in over 120 adolescent girls by leading innovative outdoor sport activities and maintaining a high level of character
• Communicated weekly through written camper reports for parents and camp directors
• Completed one week of youth development training
• Demonstrated and educated leave no trace principles to all program participants
• Managed parent, child, and staff needs to create a positive and strengthening experience for over 60 families during family camp
• Organized and led unique outdoor programs for participants from 4 years old to 82 years old

Paraguay

• Organized, fundraised for, and presented at two national youth leadership camps empowering 100 adolescents to improve environmental conservation in their own communities, with a focus on trash management
• Completed two tree-planting projects by conducting 60+ house visits with counterpart and engaging a group of 12 interested adults and 20+ kids to plant 400 trees in their neighborhood.
• Planned a two-day workshop and trained nine tour guides from the UNESCO Heritage site, the Jesuit Mission, in “interpretation and customer service.”
• Promoted alternative energy by organizing a one-day Climate Change and Alternative Energy workshop through earning a $970 grant provided from the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) fund. 15.
• Supported the creation of several tourism stakeholders in the community to write and create a “tourism commission.” Provided organizational support to the group members by attending 12 bi-monthly meetings and training.
• Collaborated with a schoolteacher to build a school garden with 30 elementary students. Taught 70+ environmental classes on topics such as soil and water conservation, organic gardening principles, reforestation.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Planned and organized four new student orientation backpacking excursions
• Presented conflict and resolution strategies and backcountry logistical matters to over 100 student guides
• Mediated and resolved conflict among participants as well as managed wilderness first response emergencies
• Participated in three separate one-week programs which entailed training for leading discussions, managing group dynamics, approaching backcountry predicaments, and outdoor education safety

Moab, Utah

• Taught for the Canyon County Outdoor Education Program and provided elementary students with hands-on educational field trips designed to supplement and reinforce the state-science concepts taught in the classroom
• Greeted park visitors and provided park orientation and interpretational material
• Reforested a former landfill site using gps technology to locate suitable seeds for planting and conducted water quality tests of surrounding area

• Legislative Intern
• Worked directly with the environmental legislative aid on researching current environmental, agricultural, and energy legislative issues
• Assisted constituents with local issues and answered their questions regarding current legislation
• Drafted congratulatory letters, official casework responses, and grant application notices
• Researched and wrote a legislation draft on a national heritage trail amendment

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Organized member data, coordinated public outreach initiatives, reported on Senator Ted Stevens public trial, and met with legislators to lobby for more protective legislation in Alaska

B.A., Political Science, Environmental Studies

Education record

Environment And Development Seminar