• Co-leader of the Diana Davis Spencer Hatchery, COA’s sustainable venture accelerator. Mentor student entrepreneurs in value creation, customer discovery, prototyping, and breakeven analysis. Extend the curriculum into the community with business workshops for local entrepreneurs.• Prepare course materials, develop learning resources, and advise students in Business and Nonprofit Basics, Launching a New Venture, independent studies, and other business courses.• Manage program logistics: plan and coordinate events, coordinate external mentors, track program expenses, and manage student seed funding.• Serve as liaison for the Projects for Peace award including managing annual cycle of recruitment, selection, nomination, funds transfer, student mentorship, and project reporting.

Designed and facilitated a strategic planning process with staff, faculty, and students and prepared a strategic plan for COA’s two production farms and community garden.

Worked independently and collaboratively to gather data, create and edit narratives, and help format a five-year interim report for accreditation with the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE).

Supported local data project focused on rural Maine marine economies. Conducted literature review, organized information about community indicators and economic data, attached metrics to stakeholder input themes, researched funding databases, prepared summary of entrepreneurial ecosystem diagrams.

After 9 years working with Craig Freshley in the Good Group Decisions office in Brunswick, Maine, I continued to support the company with a variety of marketing and administrative tasks, client materials development, and other special projects on a part-time basis.

Responsible for client communications, scheduling, project cost estimating and contracting, bookkeeping and financial reporting, Key Performance Indicator tracking, strategy development for company growth, and educational content management, in addition to all Staff Associate responsibilities (below).

Served hundreds of clients throughout the Northeast with comprehensive facilitation services: Prepared meeting materials including agendas and presentations; gathered, organized, and analyzed participant input; prepared professional meeting reports and strategic plans. Conducted stakeholder interviews, focus groups, and surveys and presented findings to clients.

Oversaw undergraduate fellowships in stakeholder-driven food systems research in collaboration with researchers and educators from COA and the University of Maine.

Planned and oversaw food and farming workshops and COA’s annual Farm Day, serving 400+ students and visitors in collaboration with community partners. Planned, facilitated, and prepared meeting reports for curriculum planning discussions among staff, students, and faculty.

Oversaw visitor experiences at a seasonal historic property: opened and closed property during visitor hours; greeted and hosted guests; recruited, trained, and scheduled docents; systematized educational materials management. Managed all logistics for public lectures and events: speaker arrangements, event promotion, venue set-up and clean-up, refreshments, media, registration, budget planning and tracking, reporting engagement statistics, volunteer coordination. Assisted with Board meetings: took minutes and prepared professional meeting reports.

• Managed the statewide Farms for the Future agricultural business planning program: oversaw $2 million program budget, negotiated service contracts with individual and organizational providers, and oversaw three annual competitive grant processes for Maine farmers.• Assembled, coordinated, and participated on advisory teams of experts in production, marketing, and finance, serving up to 40 farms annually.• Supported an external program evaluation process which found that participating farmers increased annual sales by an average of 37% and ranked the program 4.84 out of 5 in terms of value to the farming community.• Co-created and co-hosted Business Planning for Farm Success: A Gathering of Farm Viability Professionals, which has since become the National Farm Viability Conference.

• Working with the Farms for the Future program, served on business plan development teams for dozens of farmers statewide, helping to conduct market research, organize ideas, prepare written business plans, and support farmers through grant application processes.• Designed and facilitated workshops on small business and marketing.• Co-authored (with Russell Libby of Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners) Dairy Farms for the Future, a report on diversifying farms to expand direct markets for milk products.

Oversaw daily operations and customer service for busy organic produce farmstand, including daily setup and breakdown, coordination with farm managers, weekly ordering of supplemental products from local suppliers, staff scheduling and training, and daily financial reconciliation.

• Worked with existing and potential program partners to develop opportunities such as volunteer placements, internships, apprenticeships, language schools, wilderness and skill-building courses, and academic semesters.• Systematically refreshed and improved a database of over 1500 programs and internships to more easily match clients with opportunities, and refreshed and standardized client record-keeping to better track client needs and progress• Supported Principal Consultants with worldwide partner and client communications, scheduling, and other administrative tasks.