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Washington, D.C., US

Providing advisory and consulting services on environmental markets & finance, climate/nature policy, project development and climate/nature tech. Specializing in nature-based solutions to climate change, both voluntary (VCM), multilateral (Article VI) and compliance carbon markets, as well as emerging nature positive action/finance mechanisms (TNFD, SBTN.

London, GB

Serving as an Expert on the ICVCM's Sustainable Development Benefits & Social Safeguards Continuous Improvement Working Group - Guiding the development of ICVCM requirements for carbon project related benefits sharing and social safeguards. This is a volunteer position.

Mill Valley, US

Led the development of a tech-enabled platform and service to accelerate the carbon project development process and secure project finance for project operators by directly connecting supply and demand via voluntary carbon markets. Structured and negotiated project finance for both REDD+ and ARR projects ranging from $5m to $30m developing innovative.

Founded and led the growth of the cooperative to more than 60 conservation and restoration operators across Africa, SE Asia and Latin America. Recognized as an Uplink Top Innovator in the Carbon Markets Challenge, the Carbon Cooperative was a global network of land stewards actively conserving and restoring ecosystems coming together to share learnings and.

Gorongosa, Sofala, MZ

Advised the Gorongosa Project and Gorongosa National Park on strategic development, finance and certification of a suite of high quality and high impact nature-based carbon projects across 1M+ hectares including both avoided emissions and carbon removals.

Gorongosa, Sofala, MZ

Project Leadership: Lead the development of Gorongosa’s landscape carbon offsets initiative across 2.5M+ hectares from the rainforests of Mount Gorongosa to the mangrove forests of Marromeu. Developed innovative tools to link project outcomes with sustainable finance (carbon, biodiversity, ecosystem services, human development, etc). Developed and managed.

Product Leadership: Led brand development based on ethnographic research with our target customers. Negotiated and managed production contracts with co-packers producing a differentiated product line based on market demand and a customer analysis. Developed operational tools to mitigate risk and ensure on-time delivery of products.Product Launch: Developed.

Stanford, CA, US

Mentorship: Coached a diverse group of 65 triathletes. Helped to set and pursue their physical goals while creating a team culture based in belonging and community. Created training activities and exercises that were specifically designed to support the mental and emotional wellbeing of athletes.

Stanford, CA, US

Stanford, California, US

Social Venture Founder Experience: Founded and led the ideation, prototyping and launch of a community software platform to address the mental health crisis in higher education. Managed all aspects of business incorporation, fundraising, business administration and legal as well as leading a team of eight core team members and contractors.Product.

Served as an advisor to the Legado Initiative's East Africa portfolio of community conservation projects regarding organizational strategy, program development, fundraising and public/private partnerships.

Project Management: Led strategic programmatic design to create a community conservation area. Developed and managed relationships with government, private partners and local stakeholders. Managed activities for a consortium of three implementing partners and five field staff. Wrote and secured more than $250K in funding grants. Developed budget.

Stanford, CA, US

Stanford, CA, US

Curriculum Design: Designed and taught undergraduate and graduate level class, Current Topics in Sustainable Engineering, a project-based design course that addresses the cultural, political, organizational, technical, and business issues at the heart of implementing sustainable engineering projects in the developing world.Mentorship: Supported teams of.

Stanford, CA, US

Partnered with Sanivation, a social entrepreneurship organization focused on implementing container-based sanitation solutions with resource recovery to develop a toilet designed for anal washing communities and assess decentralized treatment and disposal options for the liquid waste. The motivation of the research was to reach more of the Kenyan.

Stanford, California, US

Meaningful Communication: Translated the outputs of scientific analyses into policy briefs to inform policy development and financial decision-making. Completed stakeholder analysis to determine motivations for each stakeholder group to participate in payment for ecosystem services agreements. Completed ethnographic analysis of community motivations.

Cambridge, MA, US

Analysis: Analyzed General Circulation Models (GCMs) climate data using Matlab. Analyzed the runoff for watersheds at a country level as well as producing maps to illustrate the results of the analysis in GIS. Analyzed the effectiveness of bias correction and spatial disaggregation techniques to apply GCMs produced data to specific global regions using.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Primary project: Teaching physics at a secondary school in Alto Molocue, Mozambique. Secondary Projects: - Initiating and leading a study group, science club and english club. - Building a local primary school library and organizing and implementing a community driven literacy campaign. - 2014 National Coordinator of the Science and HIV/AIDS Prevention.

Medford, Massachusetts, US

Lab research related to the partitioning of DNAPL constituents in soybean oil and water. Highest Honors received on Undergraduate Thesis completed on research.

Heemstede, NL

Assisted with mold inspection and evaluation of chemical hazards and indoor environmental air quality. Collection of groundwater, pore water and air samples. Wrote Phase 1 documents for site remediation projects and overseeing tank abatements.

Medford, Massachusetts, US

Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (CAFEH): Assess the association between exposure to air pollutants emanating from highway traffic and cardiac health in communities near highways. Primary responsibilities included data collection and database management.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Public Policy (Environment Focus)

Masters Of Science, Environmental Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Environmenal Engineering

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