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San Francisco, CA, US

Berkeley, CA, US

Writing a strategic policy report on worker ownership, job quality, and cooperative labor contracting for the California state legislature, with a team of 11 collaborators. My role includes conducting key informant interviews and leading the report writing, which will include inputs from teammates conducting comparative case studies, statistics, and policy.

• Built and managed a team of 12 to design educational content and launch a new website for 2,000 startup founders exploring cooperative options for company ownership, ranging from co-ops to crypto
• Developed an online reporting tool for founders to evaluate exit options and engage users and investors in the process.

Alameda, California, US

• Training and managing first-time researchers to conduct studies on job quality and workforce studies and influence business and policy stakeholders
• Developing a work-study model for community members to collect, analyze, and decide how to use their data

New York, NY, US

• Recruited to redesign a legacy tool used to serve 1,500 data analysts worldwide, and to reduce help desk bottlenecks for the product team
• Collaborated with product owner and analysts to define clear use cases, workflows, and user journeys, analyzed representative participant data, and prioritized features for a new roadmap

Ithaca, NY, US

• Led UX research in cross-functional teams to accelerate project delivery for 20 clients, from small startups like Up & Go to major brands like Seventh Generation
• Helped grow client base by 40% and revenue to $1.5m by selling discovery services and building client-side research skills in each project

• Led research to redesign a digital collaboration tool by pairing with a designer and coordinating a six-person engineering team through a comprehensive agile process
• Developed use cases, workflows, and feature set and created a new brand, visual identity, and UI/UX to relaunch with 400 communities of users with 30% retention compared to 2% previously

Founded a campaign and research collective, working with over 30 organizations to launch new digital products and online communities, including 18 Million Rising, the San Francisco Zen Center, and the Lean Startup Co.

San Francisco, CA, US

Planned and executed a fundraiser to help teachers integrate day-in-the-life video into their classes, coordinated 3 staff and 30 volunteers, and produced an immersive, in-person screening event, raising raised $35k (129% of our goal) and growing long-term engagement by 300%.

Santa Rosa, California, US

Working with 10 field organizers and representatives from 100+ student groups, I built a nationwide organizing model and program for co-op development and completed hand-off to new leadership with a training handbook and curriculum.

Madison, WI, US

Researched the socio-historical roots of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, a $250m public-private facility promising the future of health science, and assisted four faculty by doing participant observation at public events, analyzing similar facilities and media coverage, and writing research memos.

Madison, WI, US

Created and taught curriculum for a cross-cultural STEM, systems thinking, and sustainability summer camp for 18 Chinese and US high school students, focusing on social robotics and digital games. The course culminated in a public prototype contest with expert judges, and became a template for future summer courses.

Madison, WI, US

Developed and taught original lesson plans in sociology, environmental studies, and field research in three courses, a total of nine sections with 25 students each, and received highest reviews for each course.

Berkeley, CA, US

Analyzed diverse cases of rapid cost declines in clean energy technology to identify institutional and market mechanisms to inform policy on accelerated technological development, resulting in a report titled “Make Clean Energy Cheap.”

New York, NY, US

Developed public participation strategies for audience engagement on three interactive and speculative environmental art installations at the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic.

New Delhi, Delhi, IN

Proposed, planned, and executed field research for TERI’s long-running biomass energy technology program including socio-technical systems and human factors analysis of a rural gasification prototype, finding specific barriers to adoption and proposing workarounds from the workers' perspective.

Montreal, Qc, CA

Wrote over 20 short and in-depth stories to make new scientific research accessible and interesting. My profile on physics and philosophy professor Mario Bunge became the main source for his Wikipedia page - see https://bit.ly/feature_mariobunge_2007

Montreal, Qc, CA

Worked with a leading economist on climate change as a energy technology problem, evaluating the barriers on scaling-up clean energy technologies for the goal of climate stabilization and building a case for public funding to trigger clean energy technology R&D.

Montreal, Qc, CA

Coordinated 30 students (+1 mascot) with city and university partners to run a pilot program for municipal composting called Gorilla Composting, developed long-term partnerships, and secured $250k to build a permanent system.

Montreal, Qc, CA

Coordinated a 12-person research team to survey nonprofit leaders at the 2005 UN climate summit on what communication tools and tactics they found effective for influencing policy, and led the research and writing for our client, Equiterre.

Ste. Genevieve, MO, US

Masters Of Science, Economic Sociology

Bachelors Of Science, Environmental Economics