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• Provide supply chain consultancy to food businesses in the manufacturing and pet food industries to determine opportunities for higher welfare animal-sourced products in their operations• Develop animal welfare policies and commitments alongside food businesses, including developing strategies that roadmap timelines to implementation• Celebrate the success and progress of food business animal welfare commitments by publishing case studies, sector spotlights, and other media in collaboration with the Public Relations team

• Coordinate transportation logistics across the U.S. and Canada for non-perishable food donations from community events, food manufacturers and distributors, and other bulk recovery opportunities to deliver to hunger relief organizations local to the product's origin• Facilitate relationships between external partners across various industries such as moving and relocation, food manufacturers and distributors, community event organizers, and hunger relief nonprofit networks to plan and execute food donation recovery• Manage transport logistics and budget while building out new program strategy and meeting and exceeding new program goals, such as coordinating logistics for over 1 million pounds of food donations in under 10 months.

• Coordinate transportation logistics for non-perishable food donations from multifamily housing communities across the eastern U.S. and Canada• Facilitate connections between external partners in the multifamily housing community, such as furniture companies, property managers, moving companies, and food bank/pantry networks to plan and execute food donation events and transportation• Support a variety of scheduled, themed food drives as well as ongoing donation collection around move-out times in multifamily housing communities

University Park, Pa

● Manage and direct new food waste measurement and prevention program and technology at nine separate Penn State dining locations across five different campuses/counties● Analyze food waste data to collaboratively set reduction goals and assess back-of-house processes with Managing Chefs, Directors, and Managers in each dining unit ● Facilitate connections between regional food banks and Penn State campuses within each food bank’s service region to create a statewide campus food recovery program● Manage food recovery program and food bank relationships to recover over 175,000 lbs. of food from Penn State campuses and distribute to local communities, including student population● Design and implement new PSreUse reusable container program, resulting in a 30% decrease in polystyrene purchasing in one semester and an increase in reusable container program participation

● Served with Sustainable Food Systems Program and Student Farm at Penn State University● Design and implement Lion's Pantry preorder and downtown pickup program to increase student access to campus food pantry resources; increased pantry use by unique individuals by over 400% over first summer of implementation● Recruited, trained, and managed volunteers on farm and in community-based projects● Collaborated with campus and community partners to strengthen the network of resources available to members of the Centre County food system● Planned and executed events for up to 60 people, to raise awareness about food systems, including special focus on food security, sustainability, and waste

University Park, Pa

● Collected and processed weed and cover crop biomass by species● Supported research goals and data collection related to sustainable weed management in both organic and conventional systems● Led data collection and analysis on an independent project related to weed seed predation by insects in organic systems

University Park, Pa

Semester-long position editing photographic data compiled to design an AI which recognizes crop diseases