Elli Travis Email & Phone Number

Blacksburg, VA, US

Blacksburg, VA

• Design and implement economic and community development initiatives across Virginia in collaboration with university and community partners. Projects completed or underway where Elli serves(d) as the lead researcher or.
• Assessing the Economic Impact of Trichoderma and Coconut Pith: A comparative case study of supply chains and socio-economic impacts in Bangladesh, Nepal, India (USAID)
• Evaluator, Talent Lead: GO Virginia Region 2 Growth and Diversification
• Evaluator… Show more Design and implement economic and community development initiatives across Virginia in collaboration with university and community partners. Projects completed or underway where Elli serves(d) as.
• Evaluator, Catalyst: An i6 Innovation Challenge Grant funded by the US Economic Development Authority
• The Economic Impact of Agency 229 (Virginia Cooperative Extension and The Virginia Agricultural Experiment Stations) (2017)

Blacksburg, VA

Assessed the impact of regular text messages on the adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) among rural potato farmers as part of the USAID IPM Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP). Methods included a village-level Randomized Control Trial (RCT).

Arlington, VA

Supported the Training & Capacity Development Practice in project coordination, home office project backstopping, mobilization, proposal development coordination, workplan management, and budgeting for international and domestic projects funded by USAID and the Department of State.

Arlington, VA

Supported the Bids and Proposals team and Training & Capacity Development Practice in the development of proposals, project and bid recruitment, project management, mobilization, report writing, editing, subcontract liason.

Bethesda, MD

• Cataloged 40 years of DAI proposals and projects into a centralized system.
• Created and maintained a master list of all past and on-going project information, drawing from business intelligence reports, Oracle and contracts files.
• Prepared marketing materials for reconnaissance trips, and internal and external meetings.
• Cataloged, labeled, and organized over 6,000 proposal related documents on the DAI Portal.
• Worked with Acquisitions staff and the… Show more
• Worked with Acquisitions staff and the Communications team to manage business development information. Show less

Facilitated twice weekly tutorials for 40 Introduction to Microeconomics students.

Managed a team of 15 at-risk DC youth in the Business Unit. Coordinated weekly career development workshops, resume writing seminars. Won "Top Supervisor", and led division to win "Top Division" awards. Highest retention rate in the program. As a member of the Professional Licenses division, created a work tracker for 15 staff, edited professional.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Evaluation

Within the Department of Agricultural Leadership and Community Education, I am studying program impact evaluation methodology.

Master Of Science (Ms), Agricultural And Applied Economics

Activities and Societies: AAEC Graduate Student Association Social Chair, CALS Student of the Month (December 2014)

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics, Slavic Languages And Literatures (Double Major)

Activities and Societies: Hungarian Cultural Association, Dobro Slovo National Slavic Honor Society, Minors in Central Asian and Uralic.

Study Abroad, Russian Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: Volunteer Translator for Soldier's Mothers of Saint Petersburg, Russian Choir

Gap Year Program

Selected to attend trade school in rural Hungary with local Hungarian youth. Program included alternating weeks of apprenticeship in a.