Marit Doshi Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area Focus

After I moved to the Bay Area, I turned my wonky love of understanding social change paired with my experience as a federal funder into offering my monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) services. My work spans qualitative and quantitative, checking the requisite boxes to co-designing learning cultures, all of it grounded by my desire to see beautiful people organize themselves well to affect needed and even visionary change for their beloved communities.Since 2020, I have been serving as the quasi-independent Lead Evaluator for Cascade Regenerator Program at Pie Ranch. This Regenerator Program centers the needs and desires of first-generation, historically underserved farmers and ranchers who are at the cusp of establishing or expanding their operation, working to steward land and feed their communities in environmentally- and societally-sustainable ways. Between 2023-2024, I worked as a MEL specialist for the equity-focused San Diego Food System Alliance. We developed a working, enduring Evaluation & Learning Framework, road-testing the framework as we went. In these efforts, I draw on my social science interview and analysis expertise and various equity-centered MEL frameworks and practices learned during my time in international development.

Primarily Within San Francisco Bay Area

Beginning in 2019, I have led on the development of major federal grant applications for various food sovereignty efforts primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have been able to procure two sustaining pots of multi-year USDA funding for the indomitable stewards at Pie Ranch. Between 2021-2022, I collaborated with justice-centered Deep Medicine Circle who center land rematriation, healing, and farming. During my time, we successfully won two grants from WSARE and USDA NIFA, the first time this new organization and most of the individual members had ever received federal funding. In 2024, I established a supportive collaboration with Lacy Consulting Service, a for-profit consulting company looking to expand services into fields interdependent with environmental justice and non-mainstream conservation. This spring/summer, I am serving as an interim Abundance Steward with community-based EARTHseed Farm & Permaculture Center where environmental education meets ecological design rooted in the wisdom of AfroIndigenous traditions. I am managing their philanthropic portfolio as well as carefully developing new streams of support, including sustaining public ones.

As the elected Secretary for the SCB Board of Governors, I served as voting member of the Executive Committee on the Board and maintained official records of all Board meetings and events. This position enabled me to help guide the direction and governance of the largest professional society in the field of conservation.

As the Financial Officer for the Chapters Committee, I managed budgets for Chapters Committee and oversaw Chapter grants and awards and provided general support for the Committee (2014-2016)As Conference Coordinator, my role was to ensure that SCB Chapters have a presence and are active participants at regional and global SCB meetings. In the past this means, I have led organization of mixers, business meetings, workshops, and symposiums. I have also co-led selection and distribution of Chapter travel awards. I participated in all SCB Chapter Committee general business as well (2012-2014)

Berkeley, California, United States

Upon request, I served my two-year term as a Board member for Congregation Netivot Shalom. In addition to the basic responsibilities of a non-profit Board member, I also took on co-leadership of a six-month Family & Children's Education Task Force to research past impact and current desires of the community for sustained and improved congregationally-organized education.

San Francisco Bay Area

I was one of the Organizing Teammates for the People's Food & Farm Project, an effort to galvanize long-term public support & funding for a community-accountable sovereign food system here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more and get involved: https://www.peoplesfoodandfarmproject.org/

I worked with Dr. Jennifer Sowerwine through the UC Extension services to manage community-oriented and collaboratively-led research efforts designed to enhance food security and systems through a just, equitable centering. This work grounded me in my Bay Area home, getting me involved in substantive participatory visioning and organizing for a just and sustainable regional food system, and took me up to northern California, furthering long-term deep partnerships with the Karuk Tribe as they work to reclaim and cultivate cultural food sovereignty in the face of climate change.

In partnership with Solid Ground Consulting, I co-led multi-day virtual trainings for Resource Conservation District employees on management training and organizational development. These were inclusive of staff at all levels beyond entry and were designed with an explicit focus on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI).

I shepherded a transition project aimed at readying CARCD and the state-wide network of Resource Conservation Districts (RCDs) that it serves for deep integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into our structures, processes, and actions. My role was to coordinate moving pieces and players, working to ensure this transition time went well and helping set the stage for what comes next. As of July 2020, CARCD and its member RCD network have greater security in their DEI centering, empowered champions throughout, and a prioritized, needs-based set of programmatic actions and organizational improvements!

I led a focused TNC project team to develop a multi-year, multi-faceted strategy plan for conservation in the Northern Great Plains in North America. We piloted the use of Conservation by Design 2.0 approach at this level of implementation within TNC. I directed the planning process, incorporating the voices and views of a wide array of stakeholders and partners within the region, all to ensure a long-lasting, flexible plan driven by engaged community partners.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

For the Bureau for Food Security, I serve to widen and deepen the positive impact of climate change integration into USAID's Feed the Future work through technical- and policy-based lens.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

For the Africa Bureau, I serve as the story-telling bridge between our climate change technical field experts and the inner and outer facings of USAID, my team's back-up support for climate-smart agriculture and climate risk management policy and programming, and technical advisor on integrated environmental programming for development.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Specific activities include: *Activity Manager for1-yr research project on CSA adoption; *USAID lead on co-developed project on private investment in CSA; *Project design for field offices on integrated agriculture & climate change investments *Co-organizer for annual USAID Africa Climate Change Technical Officers meetings; *Development of internal climate change communication materials *Serve on focus group to implement Executive Order on Climate Resilience *Function as key USAID POC for CSA in Africa

Conservation outreach projects; revisions and submissions of academic papers to peer-reviewed journals; researcher profile video shorts

Davis, Ca

My PhD research mainly centered on the subject of landscape connectivity, the science and practice. Specifically, I conducted research on how invasive plants interact with conservation linkages, an underappreciated potential problem in a popular conservation tool.I also designed and implemented projects in restoration ecology and conservation management. These projects involved assessing a native forb seed mix for pollination ecosystem services in northern California, evaluating climate change vulnerability for focal species and habitats in Oregon, and quantifying the effects of wild vs. domestic herbivory on food chains in rural Kenya.

University Of Queensland

Through CEED, I worked with colleagues at UQ, UWA, and RMIT on questions involving how socio-demographic context (e.g., income, age, ethnicity) around green spaces influences ecosystem services evaluation.

Louisiana

I helped run mist-net transects and collect basic physiological data on breeding bird surveys for Dr. Zoltan Nemeth for his PhD dissertation.

Petrified Forest National Park, Az

My main tasks involved continued long-term monitoring of reptiles/amphibians and prairie dogs. I also established formal monitoring protocols and instituted basic analytic approaches for these long-term datasets.

Harvard Forest, Ma

This project focused on ecology of a common New England invasive plant: garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata. My partner and I collected data on reciprocal transplant plots of garlic mustard and also designed and implemented a new region-wide demographic study of garlic mustard populations in Western Massachusetts.

Wichita Mountains Nwr, Ok

This internship consisted of learning the workings of a wide array of wildlife refuge activities, with an emphasis on the biological. My main tasks with the natural resources unit included ground-truthing for Refuge-wide vegetation map, GIS mapping, water testing, cowbird trapping, and prairie dog transplants. I also taught Environmental Education classes and regularly staffed the Visitor Center.

Phd, Conservation Ecology

Activities and Societies: Society for Conservation Biology(SCB)-Davis chapter http://scb.ucdavis.edu/, California-Invasive Plant Council.

Bs/Ba, Biology/Plan Ii Honors

Activities and Societies: Outdoor Adventures, The Broccoli Project