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New York, United States

Lead two dynamic teams (8 staff), providing administrative and programmatic leadership and support to the farmland access program and the farm-to-institution program. Develop $1mil+ budgets. Write grant proposals to support teamwork and collaboration. Lead the division’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice workgroup. Develop tools to streamline and.

New York, New York, United States

Directed health literacy program funded by a $4 million federal grant. Managing RFP process, hiring staff, setting up contracts, and onboarding partners. Liaising with academic partner to support evaluation.Established two city-wide programs, including managing RFP process, contracting with 33 partners, and hiring and onboarding 7 staff, to support.

Wrote policy brief on developing a food policy council.Developed contracts with providers to build staff capacity based on staff survey and assessment.Researched best practices and models to develop program model and stakeholder engagement for $4million peer-to-peer mental health initiative for Harlem community members.Designed and led collaborative and.

Oversaw the work of nearly 50 staff in the bureau of Health Equity Capacity Building. The portfolio of work included violence prevention, behavioral health and resiliency, food access, capacity building, health and housing, and narrative change. Responsible for strategic planning, team development, budget development and monitoring, elevating the work of.

Center For Health Equity

• Working across multiple divisions within the Health Department, managed multi-million dollar project to open 3 Neighborhood Health Action Centers where community-based organizations, health clinics, and the Health.
• Created and managed an inter-agency process for organizations to apply for co-located space in the Action Centers.
• Developed project communication materials, including presentations for electeds, agency leadership, funders, and others as needed.
• Managed the application review process of over 30 organizations, which involved setting up review committees, organizing open houses for potential occupants, creating FAQs and webinars for applicants, and liaising with.

Greater New York City Area

Led community relations for Brooklyn to ensure constituent issues were resolved quickly.Developed speaker’s bureau to deploy Health Department experts to organizations to provide timely information on the Ebola public health crisis.

Greater New York City Area

Member of advisory committee for international nonprofit providing economic development to women in developing countries.

Greater New York City Area

Oversaw $75,000 project, budget and one staff person, that engaged over 80 partners in healthy eating activities. Managed the writing, production, and art direction of a comprehensive report detailing the activities of the $35 million Communities Putting Prevention to Work grant from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that addressed obesity and.

Brooklyn, NY

• Edible Schoolyard NYC, Brooklyn, NYConsultant hired to develop strategy and outreach procedure for the organization’s Showcase School Expansion, which established a partnership with an elementary school in Manhattan.
• Supported the executive director in securing $2 million in capital funding from City Council and Borough President’s office.
• Developed outreach strategy that reached 80,000 educators and staff.
• Developed application and scoring criteria for applicant schools.Pattern for Progress, Newburgh, NYConsultant brought on to provide thorough research on the Hudson Valley’s food system.
• Developed research tools, such as interview protocol, for food distributors.
• Produced extensive literature review.

Ludhiana Area, India

• Received 12 months of funding to conduct research in India.
• Led self-designed research project examining the impacts of rising food prices on urban and rural households in two states in India.
• Designed and conducted surveys with over 100 residents in over 20 villages and informal housing settlements.Led self-designed research project examining the impacts of rising food prices on urban and rural households.

Fellowship application reader in the areas of international development, food security and the environment.

Greater New York City Area

Founder and Director of a dynamic social networking organization that connected members in the food community through food-focused events such as bike-eat tours, beer and cheese tastings and a cook-off fundraiser, which raised funds for local social enterprise Hot Bread Kitchen.

Greater New York City Area

• Conducted extensive food systems research that contributed to the development of FoodWorks, New York City’s first comprehensive plan for the City’s food system.
• Analyzed over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles for literature review.
• Helped coordinate an advisory committee of food system experts.
• Assisted in conducting interviews with professionals from every phase of the food system.

• Manager charged with overseeing one staff person managing the organization’s seasonal food drive program with 1,000+ donors. Directed donor relations program with database of 1,500+ food donors, including supermarkets.
• Improved accuracy of donor tracking system, resulting in decrease of returned mail.
• Co-wrote a successful $57,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Solicited over 1.6 million pounds of food from seasonal food drives.
• Coordinated interactive nutrition and cooking class for food pantry clients using local Community Supported Agriculture produce.Assistant Manager responsible for managing HarvestWorks, a program to connect excess local.
• Consistently exceeded poundage goals of food rescued by 15%.

· Taught culinary instruction to teens using traditional French recipes and methods.

Wrote weekly farmers' market blog

Managed caseload of 15 primarily Spanish-speaking children within the Early Intervention system by maintaining detailed records of child’s therapies and school and family challenges and concerns.

Managed caseload of 12 children within the foster care system by maintaining detailed records of child’s medical and school issues, court proceedings and foster and biological parental interactions.

Masters, Urban Planning

Activities and Societies: American Planning Association Student Representative Committee

Ba, Social Work