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Responsible for leading and growing Goodwill's mission of helping people with housing, employment, and supportive services.

“Fighting poverty across borders”The Cashew Commonwealth provides consulting services to socially-minded investors and anti-poverty efforts. We embrace the possibilities of imaginative development. We do so by providing research insights that go beyond only numbers and data points, focusing on the nuanced aspects of human behavior and how people organize their time. In doing so, we strive to empower organizations, including commercial enterprises and NGOs, to make more informed decisions that transform community life.

Edgewood College School of Business, “Operations Management” (BUS 448/617)

Lead and managed the statewide association of Community Action Agencies (CAAs) in Wisconsin by serving the needs and interests of member agencies while advancing the principles and goals of collective anti-poverty work. During my tenure, I leveraged partnerships with multiple state department leaders to move over $725 million in pandemic aid through the WISCAP network; grew the agency’s net assets by 1366% and increased the agency’s revenue by 269% with significant corresponding distributive benefits and grant opportunities to its eighteen member agencies; drafted and worked with members of the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate to have the Wisconsin Opportunity Act introduced in both chambers. Executed a dramatic rebranding of the agency to position WISCAP as a viable partner of federal, state and private sector institutions, including Associated Bank, Freddie Mac, and multiple philanthropic organizations.

Conducted socio-economic project evaluation, social impact studies, work system and value chain analysis, qualitative research services, and strategic guidance to international NGOs and institutions. Clients include TechnoServe Mozambique; TechnoServe Ethiopia; Dobbin International, Washington, D.C.; The Land Alliance, Inc, Washington, D.C.; Affinity Health Research Development and Advocacy Initiative (AHRDA), Lagos, Nigeria.Visiting Scholar, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at UW-Madison; Additional appointments: Associate Scientist, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), 2016-2017; Honorary Fellow, Land Tenure Center (LTC), 2015-2016

Techno Serve is a non-governmental organization that helps build businesses in poor rural areas of the developing world. The Research and Analysis Unit at TNS-Mozambique was responsible for developing, integrating and coordinating the organization’s knowledge management, communications, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activity. •Designed and implemented original qualitative field and secondary research focused on work culture and the impact of private sector investment on community development and poverty reduction outcomes; This research included the use of village field diaries, a community-led photo documentation initiative, project narratives and case studies, and oral history documentation; *Participated in the design, execution, and evaluation of the Community Consultation Process;•Responsible for technical writing and donor reporting, including contracts under USAID, USDA, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Irish Aid, & The Kingdom of the Netherlands; •Supervised Research and Analysis Unit staff; •Developed content for TNS Mozambique & TNS Head Office communication platforms;•Promoted knowledge sharing within the organization and among partner agencies including the Government of Mozambique, the Aspen Institute, & Michigan State University College of Agriculture;•Managed TechnoServe’s cooperative agreement with the Magellan MBA program at the Porto Business School (Porto, Portugal)

•Led in-depth assessment of labor, social conditions and economic life in Mozambique’s cashew, forestry and grain sectors. •Researched social impact of cashew industry and authored two major reports: (1) Factories in the Field: Rural Transformation and the Organization of Work in Mozambique’s Cashew Triangle (2008)(2) Value on the Margins: Wealth and Poverty in the Cashew Commonwealth (2009)•Co-authored business plan and feasibility study on the creation of women-owned, community maize mills. The Millennium Mills Project: Promoting Maize Mills as Business and Community Hubs in Northern Mozambique’s Grain Belt (Business Plan/Feasibility Study), 2009

IOM is an inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners to ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, to promote international cooperation on migration issues, and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people. •Led research design and managed assessment teams for the study of internal labor migration in the cashew sector and within Mozambique’s commercial port facilities. •Authored briefing papers on: HIV/AIDS, Labor Migration and the Private Sector in Mozambique; Labor migration and remittances in Central and Northern Mozambique; Expansion of HIV/AIDS programming to mobile populations working in Mozambique’s agricultural sector and commercial ports; Rehabilitation of Community Health Centers following emergency response to flooding; Final reporting of IOM flood response activity under the United Nations Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) (2007, 2008)•Liaison with early recovery specialist of the U.N. Resident Coordinator’s office of the CERF Secretariat., the Faculty of Architecture at the Universidade de Eduardo Mondlane, World Health Organization, and Mozambique Red Cross.

• Founder and Director of national non-profit (501c3), anti-poverty organization whose mission is to ensure that national homelessness policy accurately reflects the needs and experiences of local communities• Drove the agency’s policy and advocacy agenda; public education efforts; and represented NPACH to news media;• Liaison to US Congressional members and staff, federal agencies, partner organizations;• Authored federal housing/homeless legislation;• In partnership with the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR), launched and organized the “Hurricane Katrina-Asian Tsunami Community Exchange” project;• Participated in national policy and advocacy forums, including: the North American Alliance for Fair Employment, Steering Committee; Families Forward, Board of Directors; Hurricane Katrina-Rita Housing Working Group; National Housing Trust Fund, Lobby and Organizing Committee; Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding; Department of Justice Domestic Violence Working Group

Developed and formulated housing policy and recommendations of national advocacy organization. Chief areas of focus include drafting federal housing legislation (lead author of the Bringing America Home Act, HR 2897); advancing affordable housing production initiatives; monitoring and analyzing federal homeless assistance legislation and sustaining field network organizing efforts around housing issues; staffing the nation-wide NCH Housing Work Group.

Interdisciplinary Studies Department & Department of History• Joint appointment within the faculty of the Departments of History and in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. Carried a full time teaching load, offering the following courses: The American Dream: The Meaning of Success in U.S. Culture; American History Since 1877;Roberto Clemente Course in the Humanities Project (USF Community Initiative).