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Hoboken, Nj, Us

Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

The Community Compost Company works to create a circular economy of food production and consumption in the Hudson Valley of New York and New Jersey. As part of the driving team in New Jersey, I collect food waste across Hudson County from commercial clients, residential clients, and public drop spots.As the Outreach Assistant, I provide support for the expansion of CCC's program through sales efforts, events, newsletters, speaking engagements, and social media. My posts on our company Instagram and my writing for our quarterly newsletter expand visibility for our program, raise awareness about issues such as contamination in our compost bins, and boost morale for our customers who are working hard with us to help the Earth by diverting their food waste. I coordinate the outreach and onboarding of new customers and also provide support for our existing residential, commercial, and municipal clients.

United States

The USCC is a national, non-profit trade and professional organization promoting the recycling of organic materials through composting. The USCC promotes its mission by encouraging, supporting and performing compost related research, promoting best management practices, establishing standards, educating professionals and the public about the benefits of composting and compost utilization, enhancing compost product quality, and developing training materials for composters and markets for compost products.As an intern I work primarily on USCC's outreach initiatives. My primary project is creating outreach campaigns to promote USCC's slew of tools and resources geared toward helping composters grow and thrive. I also assist with USCC's Legislative and Environmental Affairs Committee (LEAC), which works on creating positioning statements about various hot-button topics within the composting industry. Ultimately, I will help gather the results of the LEAC working group into "The Composters' Voice": a positioning statement and policy recommendation on current issues affecting composting in the US.

New York, New York, United States

Earth Matter NY's Zero Waste Island initiative is a collaboration with the Trust for Governors Island that creates and maintains plans to ensure Governors Island is and remains a "zero waste island." As a ZWI Intern, I helped ensure that all vendors and events complied to the mandates: that they separate their organic waste and use only compostable serviceware, and send this material all to Earth Matter's site for composting.In addition to daily sorting of the compostable waste stream to remove any contaminants, the work I participated in during the ZWI Internship helped me grow my skills as a well-rounded member of the compost field. First and foremost, I learned the fundamentals of building compost piles and creating healthy, nutritious compost. During open hours at Earth Matter's Compost Learning Center, I engaged Island visitors about the work we were doing, the importance of composting, and the different ways they could incorporate composting into their daily lives. My intern cohort also conducted compostability experiments on fabrics and compostable plastic products, to contribute to the bank of knowledge informing the compost industry. And finally, I participated in a waste audit of one of the Island's waste stations. This audit's goal was to identify the rate of organic waste capture at this station, and use that data to inform or rearanging of the station to promote higher capture rates.

Middletown, Connecticut, United States

The Compost Intern at the Wesleyan Sustainability Office is responsible for working on a team to manage the University's food waste collection program. As a Compost Intern, I played a multifaceted role, from facilitating the physical collection of food waste around campus, to running educational programming about food waste, to leading new initiatives for expanding the University's capacity for diverting food waste. With its variety of tasks, this role taught me to be both self-driven and team-oriented, in order to fulfill the complicated and ever-changing demands of food waste management.

Middletown, Connecticut, United States

Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts puts on multiple productions each academic school year, including both Wesleyan theater department productions and touring performing artists. As a theater technician, I worked on a team to construct props, sets, and lighting plots for these productions. I worked with power tools, wood shop equipment, and electrical equipment. I also provided backstage support during productions, which taught me about working in a fast, high-paced environment.

Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States

Summertime Surf is a learn-to-surf experience with multiple sites across Monmouth County. As a receptionist, I supported for daily camp functionings through the sign-in and sign-out of campers, on-site promotion to potential customers, lesson bookings, and collecting safety waivers. As summer progressed, I also provided support to instructional staff during camp activities and assisted campers both on land and in the ocean.

Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

The Hoboken Shelter has served Hoboken's houseless community through meals, showers, overnight shelter, housing and job search assistance for over 30 years.As an administrative intern, I worked as a support member to the Shelter's administrative staff, in the process learning about what it takes to run a nonprofit. I assisted with a variety of tasks, including reception, payroll, grant applications, newsletter mailings, and donor databases. I also focused my work in particular on the Shelter's largest annual fundraising event, the HoBOOken 5K, for which I managed sponsor outreach.