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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Direct Edible Schoolyard, New Orleans- a signature program of FirstLine Schools- including four garden and two kitchen programs across four schools.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Taught, managed and led a garden education program and teaching team at Phillis Wheatley Community School. The program serves 450 students as a part of enrichment programming at a K-8 charter school. Taught and planned daily lessons for students in grades K-4, managed garden maintenance and production, harvest distribution, event execution, and relationships with families and the surrounding community.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Co-taught full class load of garden education programming at K-8 charter school.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Assisted with designing, constructing, and beginning classes for garden program Edible Schoolyard, New Orleans.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Managed small teams of canvassers while seeking monthly sustaining members for Planned Parenthood and the ACLU

Adirondack Park, Ny

Co-led pre-orientation wilderness trips for seven incoming Kalamazoo College first-years. Included two weeks of backpacking, canoeing, and rock climbing. Taught backcountry skills as well as cultivated interpersonal relationships and leadership development within the group. Facilitated debriefs each day.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Sold locally produced artisan food products including cheeses, jams, wines, cut and cured meats, bread, and baked goods. Performed the company’s mission of going “above and beyond” with customers, both proactively and reactively. Sampled products, managed carryout orders, and stocked inventory.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Prepared lessons and activities for second and third grade students in an afterschool gardening and nutrition program. Worked with students to grow food in the school garden and organized crafts, activities, discussions, workdays, and family events. Weekly reflections surrounded anti-biased, anti-racist teaching techniques.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Helped to build community in the dining hall and manage food waste. Co-designed a waste reduction campaign including a clean plate commitment and implementation of new Earth Tub composting system.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

-Fall 2013: "Cultivating Community" with Dr. Amelia Katanski-Spring 2014: "A Seat in the Garden" with Dr. Amelia KatanskiCoordinated service-learning projects working with local farmers and community gardeners. Mentored students as they contacted and interviewed farmers to produce profiles for a calendar and coordinated student work in community gardens. Led structured reflections surrounding student experiences.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

As a part of the Kalamazoo College Senior Project requirement, conducted community-based participatory research on food purchasing of residents of a low-income, multi-racial neighborhood. Participants included customers of the Park Street Market, the main full-service grocery store in the neighborhood.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Assisted with improving fresh food access in a low-income neighborhood. Initiated projects including a 30-mile vendor map, a promotional video and slideshow for the market, assisted with set-up and tear-down, and EBT/”Double Up Food Bucks” token administration each market day.

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Used exploratory research to understand the social enterprise business model and how it impacts local coffee growers. Gained experience in the café assisting baristas, serving customers, and clearing tables.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Employed by the Center for Civic Engagement to lead the “Farms to K College” program at Kalamazoo College. Led weekly meetings, managed projects and events such as a food access panel discussion, food justice event with Malik Yakini of Detroit, and the annual local food cook-off. Organized a movement on campus to campaign for a new campus food-service provider (switched from Sodexo to Creative Dining Sevices).

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Served as the Competition Coordinator on student-run board for a team that was competitive at the sectional and national levels. Participated in monthly board meetings utilizing Robert’s Rules.Coordinated two US Figure Skating Association testing sessions and Bronco Cup intercollegiate figure skating competition hosted by WMU skating club. Contacted and coordinated judging, volunteers and outreach for events.

Greater New York City Area

Visited, photographed, and profiled farmers and food artisans supplying restaurants in New York City for realtimefarms.com in order to facilitate food transparency.

Bachelor'S Degree, Human Development And Social Relations, Gpa 3.8

Activities and Societies: Varsity Golf Team 2010, 2011-Course Focus in Food Systems and Writing -Senior Individualized Project: Food.

Semester Abroad, Sustainable Development, A

Activities and Societies: 5 blocks of coursework: Thai Language and Culture Sustainable Food Systems Political Ecology Oceans Integrative.