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Cairo, Egypt

Research and consulting related to food heritage and history; agriculture and the environment; rural development; socioeconomic development.

Cairo And Belbeis, Egypt

* Developed butchery and meat processing systems and procedures * Tested over 15 new products of which 10 were launched * Established costing and pricing models for 100+ products * Conducted sales analysis

Cairo, Egypt

Initiated rdna’s guarantee system for onboarding new farms by developing criteria, forms, and workflow

Maadi, Cairo

ma7ali (Arabic for "my store"​ and "local") is a grocery and deli that sells good, clean, fair, local food. ma7ali is founded on a belief in local, healthy, sustainable food and food production with a mission to develop the nascent local food community. It sells local, healthy produce and food products and includes a locally-sourced deli serving.

Egypt

ma7sool is an independent production company. We are currently producing the pilot for our flagship project, a travel, adventure, and food series to showcase diversity through food and food traditions and document unique and sometimes dying culinary and cultural practices while seeking to (re)create them in the kitchen and (re)introduce them to.

New Haven, CT

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Kisumu, Kenya

I conducted research on renewable energy technology development, focusing my ethnographic study on access:energy, a start-up that produces micro-wind turbines using locally available materials and labor.

Cairo And Farafra, Egypt

* Oversee operations in the field to deploy solar PV to replace diesel generators.* Research, hire and oversee contractors* Worked on TOC's daily and weekly carbon and energy market watch publications

Collect, analyze and present Yale's sustainability metrics data

Business Development Services Support Project for SMEs - Egypt (BDSSP)- Reporting including annual report synthesis- Design and facilitation of workshops, training and other adult education experiences- Identify and prioritize partner CD needs- Research, plan, contract and arrange CD opportunities (training, TA, exchange programs)- Manage Business Advisors.

Business Development Services Support Project for SMEs - Egypt (BDSSP)- Identify and prioritize partner CD needs- Research, plan, contract and arrange CD opportunities (training, TA, exchange programs)- Oversee/manage Small Business Advisors Program- Oversight of SME Unit at the Egyptian Banking Institute

Freelance Arabic to English translation esp in development.Proposal/grant-writing;

- External Relations, - Proactive and reactive fundraising; - Project/program design; with particular experience designing programs for youth empowerment, life skills, civic education -Proposal/grant writing incl for EurAID, USAID, UN and numerous other donor agencies and organizations

American Diploma HIgh School- taught several high school computer classes;- faculty advisor for the MUN club, including chaperoning participation in AISMUN in Cairo and trip to Manchester, England

Master Of Environmental Management, Political Ecology, Anthropology Of Development, Science And Technology Studies

Activities and Societies: Forestry Club President (Spring 2012); Treasurer (Fall 2011); member (Spring 2011-) My academic interests center.

Certificate, Small Business Advisor'S Program

Program is designed to train small and medium enterprise (SME) consultants/counselors. - Addresses Marketing, Technical/Production.

Bsc, Computer Science, International Relations

Activities and Societies: Cairo Int'l Model United Nations (CIMUN), incl 4 as president of GA and SC; Cairo Int'l Model Arab League.