Casey Harrison Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Volunteer position in support of the AMEA Network's shared mission to transform the systems that support farmer organizations and agri-SMEs to create value for farmers and their businesses.

San José Metropolitan Area

The Nuru Collective is positioned for greater scale and impact than ever before, with locally-led NGOs operating in Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and soon greater West Africa. As the Chief Sustainability Officer, my role is to support locally-led impact interventions and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) activities funded by diverse.

San Jose, Costa Rica

~ Guide the adaptation and strategic growth of the Nuru rural economic growth model in support of locally-led Nuru NGOs and in new scaling countries ~ Develop and lead monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems at Nuru International and in support of locally-led Nuru NGOs~ Ensure the Nuru Model builds rural community climate resilience, can be effective.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

~ Direct the strategic growth of social, economic and enterprise rural development models in present and future countries of operation~ Manage SME, farmer organization and cooperative development activities and ensure they are compliant with donor contract specifications in Kenya, Ethiopia and Nigeria~ Manage strategic partnerships with international peer.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

~ Manage economic development projects and ensure they are compliant with donor contract specifications in Kenya, Ethiopia and Nigeria~ Support local technical teams in Kenya, Ethiopia and Nigeria teams in adaptively managing agronomic, value chain, financial inclusion and small business development activities ~ Generate monitoring and evaluation systems.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

~ Collaborated with WWF Network offices integrating agriculture, freshwater, and climate resilience programs in WWF-Zambia, WWF-Tanzania, and WWF-South Africa.~ Managed WWF research and development team tasked with engineering sustainable business solutions and interactive decision-making tools for private sector ~ Oversaw key relationships with WWF.

~ Acted as day-to-day liaison and relationship manager for private sector partners~ Developed proposals and plans for corporate partners~ Assisted with fundraising proposals and donor reports, by leading the preparation of Terms of Reference, budgets, and legal attributes of contracts~ Conducted workshops with private and public sector partners, as well as.

~ Designed and constructed by hand a 25m x 20m Permaculture Garden on the UPaz campus containing over thirty species of tropical herbs, produce, crops, and trees. The garden continues to expand today, and is managed by students, staff, and faculty at the University for Peace. ~ Directed the student and staff coordinated "Sustainability Initiative", focused.

Luapula Province, Zambia

~ Worked in conjunction with the Zambian Forestry Department to promote the programmatic goals of food security, mitigating deforestation, conservation agriculture and agroforestry practices, water conservation, village level business training (IGAs), and HIV/Aids education and sensitization.~ Coordinated a Peace Corps Partnership Program (PCPP) in Chola.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), International Relations And Affairs

~ Economics, Agriculture and Policy Coursework: Environmental Economics, The Global Economy and Sustainable Development, Policy Analysis.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Natural Resource Management And Sustainable Development

Activities and Societies: (Lead Facilitator) Sustainability Initiative ~ Important Coursework: Water Security, Ecology, Environmental.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History Of The Americas

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Theta (National History Honors Society)