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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Program Manager for the Delaware River Climate Corps (DRCC). Coordinating with ten communities across four states comprising the Delaware River Watershed.
• Identifying topics, scheduling, and leading periodic DRCC cohort convenings to support new corps program development
• Oversee program budget creation, vetting reimbursement requests, and identifying funding sources for longer term sustainable DRCC programing

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Responsible for daily logistics and quality control of service projects completed by PowerCorps PHL crews
• Provided project materials support and supervision for crews during service
• Regularly interface with project partners from PPR, Fairmount Park Conservancy, TTF Watershed Partnership, and others as part of project planning & scheduling
• Ensuring proper maintenance of various long term forest restoration sites including PCPHL’s Memorial Grove
• Lead staff member in charge of training new program members on GSI maintenance

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Coordinated the Plants Make Positive Places (P3) program
• Managed plant materials and plant propagation for the program at the Greenland Nursery in West Fairmount Park
• Maintained the P3 garden sites at neighborhood parks and recreation centers in Philadelphia
• Preparing, scheduling and leading educational trainings for program participants including: weed ID & removal, proper watering, soil and mulching

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Coordinate routine maintenance of 260 stormwater management practices (SMP’s)
• Manage project budget of roughly $30K annually
• Oversee field project data collection
• Designed & created a Water Resource Management Badge using the LRNG platform
• Manage logistics and maintenance needs for a fleet of seven, City of Philadelphia owned vehicles
• Direct liaison between PowerCorps PHL and the Philadelphia Water Department

Philadelphia, PA

Responsible for daily logistics and quality control of projects completed by PowerCorps PHL crews attached to both Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and Philadelphia Water.

Pennsauken, New Jersy

The Work Group operates the NJ Youth Corps program, a voluntary program for young people who have dropped out of school. We serve approximately 100 individuals annually who at admission have met the minimum entrance criteria of a 6.0 reading and math grade level. Most of our students are 16 to 24 years of age, and have been out of school at least two.

Center City, Philadelphia, PA

Worked with participating schools in the Philadelphia and Chester, PA communities on implementing the Earth Force six step curriculum for youth led service learning projects. The goal of the projects being to improve their school and community environment. While building partnerships in the Chester community I quadrupled the number of students engaged in.

-Handled the centers animals and insects during presentations for campers and center visitors.-Planned and co-led activities utilizing the nature center’s property (hiking, stream ecology, shelter building, and fire making).-Led service projects to maintain park space and educate participants on environmental issues.-Maintained and managed a structured and.

Monitored the health and safety of seven at-risk youth that came from inner city D.C. ages 11-13 for two week sessions. Educated those youth on manhood, leadership skills, and character lessons as well as guided them on nature exploration