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San Francisco Bay Area

• Provide technical assistance for community/university research partnership to reduce inequalities among adolescents locally and globally through interventions in health, housing, and education. • Spearhead internal stakeholder interviews and report-back to build structure for long-term community research partnerships at UC Berkeley between multiple local school districts and community stakeholders. • Lead grant writing, pitch development, graphic design, and collaborative meeting coordination.

Oakland, Ca

• Analyzed financial justice policies and regulation to influence internal procedures of Beneficial State Bank, a community development bank with twelve branches and nearly $1 billion in combined assets. • Created strategy documents to guide Foundation activities in an effort to grow market share of the social justice banking sector and influence behavior of “big banks.”

• Develop strategy and suite of communications documents for new funding priorities braiding current trends from the leading edge of racial equity, climate resilience, and transit oriented development. • Conduct cross-cutting research identifying regional and national policy themes, funding mechanisms, and project implementation for affordable housing, green infrastructure, and regional transportation development implementation.

Oakland, Ca

• Created training curriculum connecting and contextualizing land use and public health for a diverse range of technical audiences to inspire systems and policy change. • Optimized policy tracker for local, state, and federal initiatives relating to land use and health. • Composed concept paper using qualitative research to frame innovation summit connecting local health care institutions to land use issues faced by community organizations based in Los Angeles.

Oakland, Ca

• Executed media strategies to support launch of the 3rd year of Real Food Films short films contest: design and graphics, communications strategy, and content posts on multiple platforms. • Identified topics and themes core to organization mission, including substantial writing and research around food & public health issues for lay audiences, including nine guest blogs for Food & Wine magazine.

Detroit, Mi

• Developed and implement community engagement, marketing, and development strategy for growth of Detroit Community Markets; a collaborative representing 16 distinct fresh food access programs run by faith-based, non-profit, and for-impact organizations. • Managed operations and growth of Eastern Market Farm Stand; including managing 12+ direct reports and cultivating sponsorships totaling over $90,000.• Contributed content to organization’s social and traditional media plan, including photography, graphic design & layout, and copy. • Increased Facebook ‘likes’ by 250% and Twitter followers by 420% in less than two years.

Detroit, Mi

• Launched Detroit Community Market collaborative, facilitated monthly meetings with a diverse set of community partners.• Recruited, hired, and trained 40+ “Fresh Food Fellows” to run Eastern Market Farm Stand Program, a pop-up mobile market serving 19 weekly locations focusing on local produce and nutritional behavior change.• Organized operations, vendor recruitment, outreach, and event coordination for Detroit Eastern Market Tuesdays, a weekday public market with an explicit focus on creating healthy public spaces.

Detroit, Mi

• Translated legal documents from French for clients seeking asylum in the United States & Canada.• Assisted with donor relations, including database management and receipt generation.

Ann Arbor, Mi

• Optimized shift flow, tracked over $11 million in annual sales in a high-volume, fast paced environment in nationally recognized justice and community oriented restaurant group. • Facilitated weekly staff meeting of 85-person department, including sales, labor, and gross margin with open book finance system.

Johannesburg, South Africa

• Collaborated with senior researchers to create and edit legal correspondence to multi-national corporations, bringing awareness to rights infringement and abuses in rural South African communities. • Developed curriculum on socioeconomic rights for internal workshops designed to foster organizational change.

Dearborn, Mi

Master Of Public Health (Mph) / Master Of City Planning (Mcp)

Activities and Societies: 2017 Center for Health Leadership Fellow

Ba, Political Science, Peace & Social Justice

Activities and Societies: Human Rights Through Education, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi

Human Rights

Activities and Societies: International Human Rights Exchange, Wits Football Club

Education record

Education record