Direct a municipality-funded urban agriculture program serving 25+ community gardens. Keen focus on supporting, funding, and expanding community gardens and food access initiatives. Recipient of the 2021 Volunteer Community of the Year Award. • Manage an annual $55,000 bi-annual grant program; responsible for reviewing and monitoring pre-post award actions and ensuring compliance with municipal standards.• Plan, execute, and record 30+ meetings and special events/projects annually. • Recruit, train, and support development for 150+ volunteers. • Develop storytelling content to promote municipal programming through social media, video production, and print publications reaching 60K+ homes.• Collaborate with local agencies (government, non-profit, NGO, etc.) to expand program impact and funding opportunities.• Create and implement SOPs for onboarding, reporting, and policy enforcement. • Supervise full-time, part-time, and AmeriCorps staff.• Present at local, state, and regional agricultural events.

Support urban gardening initiatives in the City of North Little Rock by providing on-site assistance and expanding the program's volunteer network. Acted as AmeriCorps Site Supervisor during 2021.• Coordinate directly with 50+ volunteers to increase food access; impact area focused on LILA (Low-Income, Low Access) communities.• Provide technical assistance (soil management, irrigation, construction, etc.), crop-planning, and landscape design to agencies in the network.• Plan and deliver on-site, virtual, and bilingual workshops for participants and volunteers.• Track and record volunteer hours, harvest weights, etc.; develop quarterly reports. • Oversee website subpage and all social media accounts.

Manage a locally-grown, locally-made farmers' market by executing both on-site and administrative duties.• Direct market schedule and vendor rotation; annually execute 30 seasonal markets from set-up to break-down.• Recruit and maintain relationships with 50+ farmers and agri-business owners.• Advise vendors and volunteer staff on local, state, and federal food safety and business policies to ensure legal and safe transactions. • Promote local producers through media reaching 10K+ prospective consumers. • Advise non-profit on process improvement regarding daily logistics, vendor selection, and outreach efforts.

Direct holiday market for the annual Northern Lights Festival in partnership with Argenta Downtown Council.• Handle market logistics including vendor application, market map, payment, and set-up/break-down. • Promote event through various social media channels.• Collaborate with on-site staff to oversee event happenings.

Serve with the Full Circle FarmCorps program at City of North Little Rock (NLR), University of Arkansas, Little Rock (UALR), Heifer International, Little Rock Children's Hospital and the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance (AHRA) to increase food security via a farm, outreach, and teach model.• Connect 20+ community gardens with resources and materials to ensure a successful planting season.• Develop online agricultural, cooking, and nutrition education content. • Design and install collaborative mural on-site at the UALR Campus Garden.• Curated long-lasting relationships with constituents and volunteers in the City of NLR.

Directed an on-campus food cooperative with a 50+ year legacy of collectively working to provide students with an affordable meal plan concentrating on locally sourced, diverse, and meatless options. • Managed membership dues, reimbursements, food and appliance purchases, scholarship program and all other financial matters for 30+ members annually. • Facilitated group food procurement trips, field trips, educational opportunities and weekly family dinners. • Launched community food plot at the campus farm in an effort to simultaneously reduce food miles and cost. • Donated non-perishable food items to on-campus food pantry in an anti-hunger initiative. • Conducted best practices research to further improve the organizations internal structure and impact.

Participate in a culturally immersive home-stay and internship with the Maleku indigenous cacao producers of Guatuso.• Connect with the Maleku indigenous community to deepen understanding of the social, cultural, historic, and economic significance of cacao production in the region.• Participate in cacao cultivation, fermentation, and preparation with TheoTica - an all women’s group dedicated to the preservation of cacao and generational traditions.• Collaborate with long-time members to develop best-practices for business and visibility expansion.

Execute daily and seasonal duties for the Kate Chandler Campus Community Farm. • Plant, propagate, transplant, cultivate, and harvest annual and perennial produce for consumption.• Perform general maintenance on farm equipment and facilities on-site. • Partner with Historic St. Mary's City to provide heirloom produce for living history demonstrations.• Maintain summer produce sales with Bon Appétit Management Company.• Launch co-operative flower farm initiative.

Assist with forest maintenance, educational programming, and miscellaneous research. • Maintain forest trails by marking paths, removing invasive species, and adding signage.• Compile research on native turtle species for temporary educational exhibit. • Complete Maryland Master Naturalist certification requirements.

Support small-scale generational farmers through on-site assistance.• Provide general maintenance via manual labor.• Monitor and care for chickens. • Follow farm safety guidelines and training.