Dawn Montanye Email & Phone Number

Ithaca, Ny

The Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County (CCETC) Environment Issue Leader is responsible for providing leadership for the environment program area and serves as a member of the organization's Leadership Team. CCETC Environment Program area leadership includes supervision and programming support for environment team staff who provide education related to composting, climate change and resilience, energy, transportation, water resources and workforce readiness for green jobs.

Ithaca, New York Area

Lead a team to provide education, information and coordination for removing barriers to transportation in order to help meet Tompkins County’s goals of increasing transportation equity and sustainability.

Ithaca, New York Area

Hired to help set clear priorities for Learn@EcoVillage’s future growth.Guided process for crafting new vision and mission statements;Wrote a five year strategic plan; Lead and assist in program development and management; fundraising.

Serve as the point person for a Network of 83 individuals and twenty-five organizations based in the Northern Great Plains. Plan and organize biannual meeting that bring together various network participants, identify and invite speakers, assist in developing field trips; Manage three priority initiatives and coordinate input to both Farm Bill and BLM Resource Management Plans for Sage Grouse conservation; Engage private, public sector and NGO partners towards shared results in conservation; Assist in proposal writing to fund coordinator position and support biannual meetings.

Merge working landscapes and conservation; establish public private partnerships to conserve endangered species and create large landscapes for conservation; create and encourage environmental markets to conserve ecosystem services, species and large landscapes.

Ithaca, New York Area

Taught graduate level course in Environmental Dimensions of Health Education and Sustainability

Bozeman, Mt

Designed and implemented innovative incentives for conservation; worked closely with public and private western land managers Explored innovative markets for conservation such as biodiversity banking and eco/agritourism Led collaborative resource management programs on over 100,000 acres resulting in improvements in land and financial management  Worked in balancing energy production in wind and oil and gas with other land management issues.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed international programs linking poverty and environment. Put these programs in the context of large scale conservation.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

World Bank and IMF engagement on integrating environmental concerns into poverty alleviation programs and policies.

Ms, Environmental Policy And Democratic Processes

Mpa, International Conservation And Economics

Ba, Writing And Environmental Studies