•Raised $70,000 in donations over 3 month period.•Assist in planning/implementation of basic needs projects in Ecuador.•Travel to music, yoga, arts & crafts festivals throughout U.S. to fund-raise for projects in Ecuador.•Responsible for maintenance, inventory, accounting, and marketing during fundraising. •Assist with content creation for website and social media.

•Designed and developed curriculum and trained new staff of Naturalists.•Teach Ecology, Geology, Native American History, Astronomy, and Wilderness Survival through experiential education in an outdoor environment.•Promote leadership skills, communication, self-esteem, and teamwork to groups (5th grade – adults) through GBI (Ground-Based-Initiatives), low rope, and high rope elements.•Perform general repairs and maintenance to camp trails and footbridges.•Constructed bear-proof composter to aid in establishment of compost program.

•Promoted from O.E. Instructor to Senior O.E. Instructor & Ropes Lead•School Lead/Liaison between visiting school administration and O.E. instructors•Trained new staff on teaching techniques for outdoor education and ropes course safety.•Provided educational supplement to classroom-based curriculum with outdoor curriculum that meets California State Standards.•Led nature lessons (4th-8th grade students) that include a wide variety of disciplines, including Natural History, Geology, Ecology, Freshwater Biology, and Astronomy.•Ropes Lead responsible for overseeing proper belaying techniques of instructors, document and repair ropes course as needed, and perform high ropes rescues when necessary.

•Created and facilitated the Peace Corps Senegal’s first co-ed sleep-away youth summer camp. •Conducted comprehensive environmental survey of the community of Bembou. •Conducted village by village census and bed count in preparation for mosquito-net distribution to prevent Malaria in partnership with NGO’s. •Established an environmentally-focused youth club for primary school children. Projects included a vegetable garden, tree nursery and compost within the schoolyard.•Led workshops with local women to teach organic gardening utilizing local materials and compost.•Trained local teachers, farmers, and new PCVs on proper tree-nursery management.