I provided administrative through tasks including but not limited to calendar management, expense processing, contract arrangement, meeting support, and note-taking. Additionally, I contributed to legal, policy, scientific, and other substantive research and writing to support advocacy in energy efficiency, building decarbonization, natural gas & LNG projects, ISOs/RTOs and FERC.I wrote and submitted testimony to state legislatures supporting bills that promote energy efficiency, appliance and equipment efficiency, and water efficiency. Additionally, I wrote, edited, and fact-checked public-facing expert blogs on energy efficiency. I have written 7 blogs which have been re-posted in various publications and internationally.I co-led the Steering Committee of NRDC’s Movement Support Fund, which issues grants to partner organizations to support environmental justice groups and community-based organizations.

I performed administrative duties that support daily office functioning for all staff. This includes processing mail, invoices, payments, membership dues, and donations. I also sent membership correspondence and donation acknowledgement letters. I contributed to database management in CiviCRM in order to best organize relationships between our members as well as non-member constituents.I also provided on-site and behind-the-scenes program support for events attracting professionals in sustainable energy, energy efficiency, and high-performance building

I performed administrative tasks to support events and essential office management and provided onsite support at the BuildingEnergy 2017 Conference in NYC.

I offered administrative and project management support in consulting for nonprofit and philanthropic organizations that center and advance racial equity, LGBTQ justice, and sustainability. My responsibilities included scheduling, administrative tasks, research, communications, and creating materials in project planning and multi-stakeholder collaborations.

Researcher for Hashemi Lab in UMass Amherst Plant Biology Graduate Program and Stockbridge School of Agriculture. I assisted with graduate research on optimizing New England cover crop and fertilization practices. As a researcher I collected plant, crop, and soil samples, prepared those samples for laboratory analysis, and analyzed samples for nutrient levels. I also performed data entry, analysis, and visualization.

Internship through Student Conservation Association. As a member of the Biological Science team, I worked with local native & non-native wildlife in the environment protected by the Refuge and interacted with members of the public. I served to survey, map, and eliminate invasive plants in the area, take population counts of nekton, identify vegetation, and analyze sediment accretion and hydrology of the area. Additionally, I performed data entry in SharePoint and QA/QC for that data entry.

I analyzed data collected from automotive radar testing in a collaborative team setting. In addition, I met with employees of the office to gather information and produce instructive PowerPoints and manuals detailing different technologies produced and used by the company, including both software and hardware.