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St. Augustine, FL, US

Check, Virginia & St. Augustine, Florida USA

• Heifer International partners with farmers around the world to strengthen local economies and build secure, sustainable living incomes. Heifer promotes sustainable, regenerative agriculture; working with farmers to.
• Program development & management: provide leadership, oversight, and support to Heifer’s Asia region’s $20M annual program/projects portfolio
• Environmental Initiatives lead: build capacity to integrate environmental conservation, biodiversity, eco-based, regenerative agriculture approaches into programs, projects, and proposal design; provide thought.
• Lead technical design for large and/or complex new business development proposals, ranging from $500K to $50+M
• Partnership and relationship cultivation & development: nurture existing and build new partnerships with government agencies, NGOs, academia, private sector, and philanthropic foundations
• Provide technical solutions for strategic planning, program design and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, MELs, and management strategies

Butte, Montana, United States

• National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT), Montana & Virginia 2017-2021NCAT is a private non-profit organization working to build resilient rural communities through sustainable solutions that reduce poverty.
• Sustainable Agriculture Program Director: program development, oversight and management: sustainable agriculture teams, sustainable food and farming systems programs, budget and financial management, reporting to the.
• ATTRA Project Director: supervise and manage the nation’s largest sustainable agriculture support program, providing technical assistance, research, and resources nationally to over 2 million farmers and food system.
• Developed and managed NCAT’s annual soil health innovations conferences
• Strategic development and planning, organization and program budgeting, staffing
• Organizational leadership and staff development

• Non-GMO, organic food, and health education to encourage consumer/market-driven changes for sustainable agriculture, food systems, and improved human health.
• Management: led program teams, monitoring and evaluation, reported to the public and funders
• Leadership and development of strategy, planning, budgeting, and overall programming
• Fundraising development: secured foundation and other funding to support annual programs
• Currently serve as strategic advisor and Board of Directors liaison

Arlington, Virginia

• Winrock International’s Wallace Center is a leader in the effort to catalyze and further develop sustainable food systems that are environmentally sound, economically viable, produce healthy and accessible foods.
• Management: technical scope and budget management of multi-million USD programs, impact investing, grant making, portfolio-management, leading project teams, adaptive management, monitoring and evaluation, reporting to.
• Leadership in market systems development and market-based strategies: developing and leading technical assistance and training programs for farmers and communities engaged in food and agriculture enterprise.
• Philanthropy: designed, implemented and managed the Strengthening Small Scale Sustainable Farming & Local Food Systems through Food Hub Development grant program, multi-million dollar grant program supporting building.
• Developed and managed biannual food hub conference: Maintaining Values While Building Value
• Designed, managed, wrote, and led research on: From the Ground Up: Inspiring Community-Based Food Systems Innovations that identifies, documents, and analyzes successful community-based food system innovations. The.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) provided a framework and guide to restore, protect and preserve the water resources of central and southern Florida, including the Everglades. CERP was a $11.9 billion.
• Facilitated project planning and execution: facilitated stakeholder communication; vital task coordination, critical path problem identification and solution development; strategy development. Relied heavily on strong.
• Project planning and design, documents for Congressional authorization/appropriation, monitoring and evaluating project processes and implementation progress: Project Management Plans, Feasibility Studies, Project.
• Interagency coordination: issue facilitation, conflict resolution, problem solving, communication between team members and teams, meeting facilitation, development of path forward

Washington DC & St. Augustine, Florida

• Forestry & Natural Resource Management is a participatory natural resource management program that offers integrated strategies for sustainable livelihoods and resource management.
• Planned, coordinated and supervised programs, projects, and activities; technical support and training to field projects; design and delivery of workshops; budget management; project and program monitoring and.
• New business development and program design: preparing concept papers and proposals

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Associate Director, Africa & Middle East Division
• Small and medium agricultural economic development: increased efficiencies along entire value chains from crop production through processing and marketing, worked to quickly improve the productivity and profit margins.
• Enterprise development: assisted small and medium-sized enterprises to maximize market opportunities; performed value chain analysis, including reviews of the industry and the external factors influencing its.
• Supervised divisional project staff’s work; ensured overall portfolio implementation and management quality; reviewed field’s financial and progress reporting; monitored and evaluated programs and projects
• Strategic planning, organizational development and operating systems; troubleshot overseas programs technically and managerially, including program redesigns, work plans, budgets, reportingConsultant.
• Technical and managerial reorganization: assessed and redesigned programs’ operating systems, monitoring and evaluation systems, reporting systems, and human resources procedures

Washington, DC

Master'S, Natural Resource Policy & Administration, Forestry & Environmental Resources Department, College Of

Activities and Societies: Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment – ¼ of graduate coursework Academic Honors (GPA 3.9) Cooper.

Ba, International Relations

Bachelor of Arts in International Relations Minors in Economics/French