Devon Jenkins Email & Phone Number

United States

Ithaca, New York, United States

Program Manager for the Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement (ILCI), ilci.cornell.edu, a $50m USD program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with activities in Costa Rica, Haiti, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi and the United States.

Ithaca, New York, United States

Provide technical advice on issues related to rice production in Sub-Saharan Africa, on geospatial considerations (GIS), and on field training / training manuals

Ithaca, New York, United States

Program Manager for the Thomas Wyatt Turner (TWT) Fellowship, which brings graduate-level students from 1890 land-grant universities to Cornell University for one year of academic study, research and mentorship, and engages faculty and university leadership at Cornell and in the 1890 system to create stronger institutional bridges and opportunities for.

Ithaca, New York Area

• Managed a 5-year, $5m project training agricultural researchers from across Sub-Saharan Africa in gender-responsive research theory and methods (greatagriculture.org), in close collaboration with our partner.
• Led the annual reporting process, coordinated management activities and processes, and led administrative and budget management
• Shifted project management, communications and file / data management to collaborative online platforms
• Developed print and online communications strategies and materials

Ithaca, New York, United States

• Managed a cross-cutting program to advance the roles of women in agricultural research and extension (cals.cornell.edu/aware)
• Managed donor funding and reporting
• Shifted project management, communications and file / data management to collaborative online platforms
• Tripled global readership of weekly gender and agriculture newsletter, moved platform online, spun off online resource database (1,000+ resources), redesigned the layout to make it visually appealing, and streamlined.
• Managed graduate travel grant process, increasing the applicant pool size and diversity
• Hired and managed student contributors

Ithaca, New York

• Provided management, technical guidance, communications and field training for SRI-WAAPP (sriwestafrica.org), a 13-country, 3-year, $2m World Bank-funded sustainable rice farming project in West Africa, using the.
• Led field trainings in French for extension and research staff in three regions of Senegal (Casamance, Peanut Basin and the Senegal River Valley) and Benin, and co-facilitated national field trainings in Togo and Côte.
• Developed a geospatial mobile data-collection platform using open-source mobile survey software and ArcGIS Online, and trained M&E and extension staff from 13 countries in French and English through regional workshops.
• Created project websites in French and English using Wordpress
• Developed technical and communications materials, and led quarterly reporting

Ithaca, New York, United States

• Founding member of the county's food policy council
• Collaboratively supported planning, fundraising and launch of a two-year process to create a food system plan for Tompkins County, which was successfully funded by the Tompkins County Legislature and a local foundation.
• Researched possible intervention areas in Tompkins County, and food policy council work in other counties

Ithaca, New York Area

• Training material / publication development for Peace Corps’ Office of Overseas Programming and Training Support, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Cornell University, and other clients
• Authored and designed a 62-page technical manual and trainer toolkit for Peace Corps, with accompanying presentations and teaching guides

Porto Novo, Benin

• Tested and developed new agricultural training programs for Songhaï Center, a UN-designated Center of Excellence for agricultural development
• Planned and led technical trainings on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) for Peace Corps volunteers, counterparts and staff from Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Togo and Benin as part of a multi-stakeholder.
• Started and managed a seed distribution and sales program for Songhaï Center, in collaboration with East / West Seeds, covering Benin, Niger and Nigeria
• Planned and convened a national seed system conference in Benin
• Planned and conducted two seasons of on-station crop trials

Ithaca, NY

• Researched and prepared reports on rice production systems in West Africa
• Helped plan a multi-country, sustainable rice training program in West Africa
• Managed research databases and social media
• Created a new website for Cornell's Conservation Agriculture group

Ithaca, NY

• Supported the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship program, which brings mid-career professionals to the United States for one year of professional development, affiliations, and academic study
• While the program operates in more than a dozen US universities, Humphrey Fellows based at Cornell are focused on agriculture, natural resources, and other environmental fields

Maradi, Niger

• Part of a four-person research team including two researchers from Cornell and two researchers from Abdou Moumouni University in Niger, exploring methods of increasing behavior change messaging around water, sanitation.
• My research focus was on engaging traditional village leadership structures (i.e., village chiefs) in behavior change messaging

Olympia, WA

• Managed accounts for 16 clients, assisted lobbyists and drafted weekly reports on active legislation during the 2009 Washington state legislative session

Texas, West Virginia, Montana, Georgia And Florida

• Managed field operations in up to 5 counties at a time
• Worked across diverse settings, from rural Georgia and inner-city Jacksonville (FL) to border communities in El Paso and smalltown West Virginia

Orcas Island, WA

• In-depth, residential permaculture internship at the oldest permaculture site in North America
• Included a Permaculture Design Course (PDC), edible / functional landscaping, nursery management and sales, and leading site visits

Falmey Region, Niger

• Planned a 60-village gardening, seed bank, input distribution and collective purchasing initiative with a regional farmers’ cooperative
• Led cross-sectoral activities in public health and economic development
• All work conducted entirely in the Zarma language
• Lived / worked in a remote, off-grid village of ~500 people

Kalispell, Montana, United States

Mentored and worked with at-risk, adjudicated youth in the Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana, focusing on gardening, outdoor recreation, and trail building. Managed the community garden.

Master'S In Regional Planning (Mrp) – In Progress, 4.15 Gpa

Focus on municipal-level climate change mitigation and food systems planning

Master'S Of Professional Studies (Mps), International Agriculture And Rural Development, 3.88 Gpa

Crop and soil science, community development, adult education. My thesis project looked at the potential for speciality coffee to address.

Bachelor Of Arts In Liberal Arts, Community Development And Ecological Design, (Qualitative Assessments Only)

Evergreen's unconventional pedagogy typically involves taking one course at a time, for up to a full academic year. Each course brings 2-4.

Summer Studies In Architecture