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San Francisco, CA, US

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Identified opportunities to improve water stewardship and presented strategy recommendations to C-suite leadership.
• Informed strategic direction of company deforestation policy, leveraging goals and innovations from relevant companies.

• Evaluated cleantech startup grant applications for technical and financial viability.
• Provided mentorship for startup founders, including application feedback, business strategy, and potential startup pivots.
• Organized and facilitate startup judging calls with working professionals in the business and the environment and venture capital spaces.
• Marketed grant opportunities to the broader Yale campus via social media and mass email.

• Managed over 50 business relationships with west coast solar installers, ensuring marketplace growth and success.
• Helped maintain installer relations for two new company verticals—a heat pump marketplace and residential solar financing.
• Led internal team process building via a weekly “blitz,” including identifying service offerings for 309 installers to inform our inside sales team, creating a centralized location for installer notes, and developing.
• Collaborated with the data team to develop a data visualization dashboard that identified installer best practices, such as ideal quote speed and number of customer messages.
• Retained 100% of key revenue business partners in three separate rounds of price increases.
• Increased company revenue by 178% (Nevada), 111% (California), 90% (Oregon), and 37% (Washington) year over year.

• Facilitated virtual and in-person meetings designed to engage stakeholders in state and federal programs to increase geographic diversity and number of grant applications.
• Supported a greenhouse gas emission lifecycle assessment for a textile fashion subscription service.
• Created and implemented short, medium, and long-term internal communication and marketing plans to help manage client expectations.
• Developed communication materials: website content, social media posts, marketing flyers, and email blasts.
• Tracked project progress using OneNote, Smartsheet, and Wiki and presented progress reports to senior client leadership.
• Coordinated contract proposals for new business development opportunities, including creating submission timelines, drafting sections of proposals, and collaborating on visuals with graphic designers.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Lebanon, New Hampshire

• Collected water and aerosol samples to examine a correlation between cyanobacteria blooms and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
• Distributed hundreds of questionnaires regarding environmental exposures for a population study in Ohio.
• Merged medical databases and organized data in Excel spreadsheets.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Organized a conference to engage stakeholders on how to improve Illinois' agricultural practices and policies.
• Conducted outreach to expand Greenleaf’s network of partners and inform its agricultural policy work.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Researched the Washington D.C. stormwater credit trading market to help establish a stormwater credit trading market in Chicago.
• Researched stormwater funding mechanisms to advise Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s transition team.
• Analyzed potential for Illinois stormwater infrastructure fees based on the extent of impervious surfaces in new developments.

Albany, New York Area

• Identified thirteen best practices of organic diversion laws to help draft new legislation for New York State.
• Summarized the Massachusetts “Economic Analysis of Food Waste Reduction Initiative” for Senate and Assembly members.
• Conducted a waste audit of all NYS DEC departments.

Albany, New York Area

• Analyzed new NYS Senate and Assembly members’ party affiliations and committee membership to inform lobbying efforts.
• Arranged lobbying meetings with NYS Senate and Assembly members to maintain the $300 million Environmental Protection Fund.

Thetford, Vermont

• Helped author a soil health and watershed educational curriculum used in over 45 countries.
• Co-wrote grant proposals to fund restorative agricultural educational initiatives.
• Taught soil health and watershed function principles to elementary school students.

Master'S Degree, Environmental Management

• Specialization: Business and the Environment • Leadership: Lead, Business and the Environment Learning Community • Consulting.

Graduate Course, Water, Health, & Sustainable Development

Applied social, health, and environmental impact assessments to water infrastructure projects. Developed an understanding of investment.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Environmental Policy, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Scholars Program, Cocoa House, Union Schenectady Alliance