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Malawi

Communicated the organization’s vision and achievements to potential volunteers, donors, and partners by generating engaging content for multi-platform social media campaigns to increase the organization’s visibility in an increasingly crowded market.Identified key activities and events to include in a monthly blog (https://www.help2kids.org/en/blog-category/malawi-blog-en/) and quarterly newsletter to maintain contact with donors, partners, and former volunteers as well as to inform them of emerging needs.Assisted in the development of new help2kids informational and crowdfunding websites which involved revising project descriptions, adding updated photographs, and creating a new concept for staff photographs while promoting an updated corporate identity.Developed skills in Word Press and other web-based CMS platforms, Mail Chimp, Photoshop, In Design, and other Adobe Creative Suite programs.

Malawi

Managed organization’s finances, accounting, developed yearly operating budget as well as maintenance and improvement budgets.Supervised a Malawian staff of six at a socially responsible guesthouse in Central Malawi which included bi-yearly evaluations, determining pay raises, disciplinary action, terminating and hiring employees.Increased the capacity of staff through weekly sustainable farming workshops which culminated in the creation of an organic, biointensive permagarden that produces vegetables for the guesthouse and its employees. Strove to increase operational efficiency while maintaining a positive impact in the community by making smart purchases and investing locally whenever possible.Worked with local primary school to develop student interest in fighting deforestation while creating a source of income for the school via a school tree nursery project.

Maintained attention to detail and strict adherence to complex procedures when performing physical exams directly measuring temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and hemoglobin, taking brief health history interviews, and performing aseptic phlebotomies to collect blood donations.Excellence in communication and customer service skills when determining donor suitability and when counseling potential donors who should not donate. Responsible to promptly recognize donors experiencing adverse reactions to the donation process, and to administer appropriate, compassionate care.Travel to diverse communities, interacting with people from various backgrounds and interests.

Zambia

Coordinated with the Zambian Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives to educate 500 local farmers belonging to 11 agricultural cooperatives to conserve their farmland, improve food security, and increase income through the implementation of sustainable farming techniques such as composting, manure/leaf/compost tea, crop rotation, legume/soya growing, agroforestry, permaculture, minimum tillage farming, and seed multiplication.Organized and implemented workshops, demonstration plots, field days, and agriculture show presentations.Empowered several households to take control of their food security and income generation despite cultural and logistical barriers by holding community workshops co-facilitated with several local counterparts on bio-intensive permagardening close to their homes enabling a sustainable harvest without large time investments due to travel and large-scale cultivation.Designed and piloted a novel system for growing watermelons in Northern Zambia’s leached, acidic soil using pothole-type plantings amended with compost and wood ash.

Windsor, Ny

Managed a staff of three employees to prepare curriculums, create lesson plans, and teach classes for ten merit badge subjects, including environmental science and Forestry.Planned and executed an improvement project for a 500 meter, streamside interpretive nature trail by organizing, instructing, and motivating a group of thirty volunteers who improved wildlife habitat, removed litter, constructed simple erosion prevention structures, and replaced informational signs.Developed the camp conservation plan which delineates land use and management strategies over its diverse and rugged 1,200 acre property.Designed innovative and interactive activities which led to Nature consistently being rated as the most popular out of eight program areas on evaluations completed by campers and adult leaders.

Paul Smiths, Ny

Monitored the ecological response of 25 species of native aquatic macrophytes to the low-impact, hand-harvest removal of the invasive Eurasian watermilfoil in several bodies of water around upper Saranac Lake. Entered and analyzed field and laboratory data.Measured the flow and hydrology of a major inlet stream during a Eurasian watermilfoil fragmentation-transport study to determine whether fragmentation is a significant factor in lake-to-lake transmission of infestation.Helped educate land owners and day-users how their actions impact the ecology and water quality of the lake.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biology, Environmental Sciences

Senior Thesis: A Study of the Chaoborus Population of Lower St. Regis Lake – Implications for Bioaccumulation

Associate Of Applied Science, Fish And Wildlife Technology