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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Olympia, Washington, United States

Provide guidance and advice to the Commissioner of Public Lands on forest health and resiliency planning and to inform successful implementation of Washington’s Forest Action Plan. Collaborate with representatives from the forestry industry, conservation groups, Tribes, forest collaboratives, state and federal land management agencies, and affected communities to advise on statewide forest-related program and policy matters and collaborative processes. Highlights:- Serve on State Forest Stewardship Coordinating Subcommittee, tasked with engaging with and benefiting from funding through USDA’s Cooperative Forestry Program of the State, Private, and Tribal Forestry mission area of the Forest Service.- State of Washington Grant Proposal Reviewer, reviewing and scoring proposals for a conservation program administered by the U.S. Forest Service in partnership with State agencies to encourage the protection of privately owned forest lands through conservation easements and land purchases.- Approving Reviewer on $94M of federal grant funding to projects in Washington State through the Forest Legacy Program, Land and Water Conservation Fund, and Inflation Reduction Act.- Committee Topic areas span state and federal forest policy and agency collaboration, climate and wildfire resilience planning, budget appropriations, Tribal co-stewardship and cooperation, and grants award and distribution, among others.

Built, led, and scaled the Customer Support Department to ensure exceptional service for users of Happier’s offerings. Managed a growing team, spearheading nonprofit, corporate, and research partnerships, and fostering a collaborative, learning-oriented work environment. Highlights: - Built Customer Support division from ground floor up, including hiring and developing a team to manage all customer touchpoints, maintaining customer happiness score of 93%, and winning industry awards.- Oversaw departmental budgeting and fiscal planning, realizing significant efficiencies and cost savings.- Managed nonprofit partnerships and philanthropic programs, and prominent B2B clients (i.e., Apple & Harvard), and pioneered behavioral health academic and clinical research partnerships. - Finalized partnership agreements with approval for use of App in over 25 IRB-approved research studies, resulting in a dozen peer-reviewed scientific publications, proving the efficacy of our product as an evidence-backed intervention.- Coached and mentored team members through regular trainings, 1:1s, and performance reviews, supporting team culture, skill building, and professional development.- Provided regular reports and analytics on departmental and team performance metrics, driving data-informed decisions and providing actionable insights to improve business operations and customer experience.- Provided organizational leadership and facilitated cross-functional collaboration, spanning strategic alignment, communication initiatives, collaborative decision making, conflict resolution, cultural cohesion, and the operationalizing of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB).- Established feedback mechanisms to assess partners' needs and provide technical support and resources.- Promoted from Customer Support Manager (2018 to 2021) to Head of Support after building the department from the ground floor.- Promoted from Client Coach (2016 to 2018) to Customer Support Manager.

Greater Seattle Area

Consulting mission-driven clients on stakeholder outreach and facilitation, fundraising and partnership development, environmental policy and resource planning, collaborative decision-making, strategic planning, and capacity building. Highlights:- Engaged in conservation, sustainable development, and climate and community resilience, including supporting the Conservation Lands Foundation as detailed below.- Designed a fundraising and development program for an NGO pioneering social entrepreneurship and equitable and sustainable economic development in the Global South.- Designed and executed community and stakeholder outreach and strategic communications campaigns.- Facilitated multi-organization coalition building, strategic planning, and collaborative decision making within complex and contentious land use planning processes.- Crafted and implemented durable development strategies involving grant-seeking and corporate and individual donors.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked directly under the California Program Director, responsible for stakeholder outreach and engagement for protection and restoration of public lands, strategic planning, fundraising, and partnership development. Managed stakeholder engagement for advocacy campaign to permanently protect BLM-managed public lands. Highlights:- Engaged over 50 grassroots conservation, business, and Tribal organizations, designed 5 stakeholder engagement meetings, provided technical assistance, collaborated closely with BLM management, and facilitated multi-organization strategy planning, resulting in 2.89M acres being protected as California Desert National Conservation Lands.- Completed assessment of restoration priorities, conducting stakeholder interviews with key BLM managers and partner groups to develop strategic public lands management recommendations for BLM and to guide CLF’s program priorities across California’s National Conservation Lands.- Cultivated funding partnerships with corporate donors, building a portfolio of corporate donors committed to investing in CLF and its work protecting and restoring our nation’s National Conservation Lands.- Facilitated multi-organization strategic planning for conservation advocacy campaigns, facilitating meetings between nonprofit environmental partners, and negotiated public-private partnerships that leveraged private philanthropic investments for public benefit.- Coordinated publicity for public-private restoration partnerships, gaining national media coverage and replicable models for community-led conservation partnerships.

San Francisco Bay Area

Managed operations, fundraising, programming, communications, member recruitment, and engagement for a nonprofit member network of senior leaders from California businesses, environmental organizations, and state and federal agencies engaged in on-going dialogue about critical environmental policy issues. Highlights:-Steered organizational finance and operations, bringing organization from deficit to surplus within 6 months. -Cultivated corporate memberships and foundation grants, and led business, NGO, and agency membership recruitment, engagement, and retention, growing membership by over 40%.-Managed active programs and facilitated multi-stakeholder dialogues across a range of California environmental policy issues and programs to guide shared learning, build consensus, and develop innovative policy solutions to the state’s most critical resource issues, with legislative, regulatory, and programmatic achievements across climate, air, water, energy, land-use, transportation, and environmental justice.-Facilitated publication of consensus-based policy papers endorsed by three dozen organizational signatories across California business, NGO, and government agency stakeholders, spurring legislative and program actions:o Leveraging Mobile Source Emissions Reduction Resources on allocation, distribution, and leveraging of financial resources to improve both the emissions and fiscal performance of mobile source incentive and regulatory programs.o Climate Change and Water Management, one of the first multi-sector statements to address the interrelationship between climate change and water resource management in California. o Recommendations to Reform California’s Smog Check Program, based largely on discussions at the Clean Air Dialogue, which spurred successful legislative action in AB 2289 (Eng).

Greater Boston Area

Led operations, administration, communications, and external relations for non-profit public policy research and advocacy institute at Tufts University focused on economic and environmental equity and sustainability. Highlights:- Oversaw administration, budgeting, and reporting for $1M portfolio of grants, gifts, and contracts; managed hiring, onboarding, and supervising of employees.- Assisted executive and research leadership with fundraising, grant and agreement management and administration, donor cultivation, and foundation relations.- Coordinated outreach and communications promoting policy papers and publications, oversaw website and database management, events planning, and external relations, including liaising with university administration.

Greater Boston Area

Created scalable systems for early-stage nonprofit philanthropic investor pioneering social entrepreneurship and equitable and sustainable economic development in the Global South, while managing program delivery. Highlights:- Established systems and technology for financial oversight and internal operations.- Steered grant writing and management, donor cultivation, and foundation relations.- Managed marketing and strategic communications planning and implementation.- Provided technical assistance and capacity building to social enterprises and local communities in South India.- Authored research reports and papers for funders, policy makers, and development finance institutions.

Ma, Urban And Environmental Policy And Planning

Water: Systems, Science & Society Graduate Certificate in Integrated Water Resources Management, Tufts Institute of the Environment..

Forest Stewardship & Sustainable Forest Management

WSU Extension Forestry Program: Completed in-depth coursework and field-based practicums in forest stewardship and sustainable forest.

Senior Fellow, Pacific Northwest Regional Fellow

Ba, Earth And Environmental Science

Specialization in Environmental Science and Policy for Global Environmental Change