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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 strengthen impact.

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 COVID-19 vaccine equity by funding 33 organizations to conduct tailored outreach and messaging. Managed $39 million in private and federal funds. Ensured alignment of staffing, goals, and budgets. Oversaw data collection system development, reporting to stakeholders, invoicing, contract management, communications, capacity building, and partner engagement.

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 interactive goal setting and planning process for 50 staff.Developed reporting and project management tools in collaboration with bureau leadership.

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 community-based organizations, and advocating for staff and resources. Managed team transition to address COVID-19 and facilitated remote work environments.

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 Department are co-located to collectively address the health needs of the neighborhood.● 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 general counsel on license agreements.

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 tobacco use in New York City.Managed the content for the Community Transformation Grant’s webpage of success stories.

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 that will be equipped with a one-third acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom to help children adopt healthy eating behaviors. Managed the organization's expansion by guiding and supporting schools through the application process, meeting with educators on the program's benefits, and ensuring a strong pool of applicants.• 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 in two states in India. Designed and conducted qualitative and quantitative surveys with over 100 residents in over 20 villages and informal housing settlements

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, farmers’ markets, food shows, and distributors. Continued to manage HarvestWorks.• 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 produce from farmers to a network of over 500 community food programs. Developed and oversaw $200,000 program budget.• Consistently exceeded poundage goals of food rescued by 15%.• Managed food rescue operations from 10 farmers’ markets, resulting in over 30% poundage increase.Development Associate brought on to manage the organization’s corporate donor holiday card program.• Developed system for tracking companies donating to the organization’s holiday card program. • Ensured orders were processed accurately and quickly.

· 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