Masha Vernik Email & Phone Number

United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Organize workshop that aims to integrate social science and climate data to develop data products that deepen understandings of climate impacts and suppport climate adaptation decision-making.Collaborate with research partners in workshop preparation, including UW's Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) and NSF AI Institute for Research on.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Assisted in teaching Society and Sustainable Environments, an undergraduate course in sustainability topics.Taught a class on agroecology and sustainable development, giving a lecture, designing learning objectives, shaping class activities.Graded student assignments.

• Develops and executes communications plans to support the advocacy goals of the Food Project, including strategies for narrative development, audience identification, message development, and content strategy.
• Creates written and visual content to support the communications and base building needs of the Food Project.
• Leads press outreach for the Food Project through development of press materials and communication with journalists.
• Builds relationships, networks, and capacity with external coalition partners who have aligned visions of a more regenerative and just food system.

• Crafts strategic narratives and organizes with community members to support litigation towards a more just and sustainable food system
• Executes Food Project press campaigns by building press lists, writing press releases, and pitching stories to journalists
• Promotes narrative shift by creating blog posts, emails, newsletter, and social media
• Builds relationships, networks, and capacity with external coalition partners who have aligned visions of animal agriculture as regenerative, humane, and owned by independent farmers

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Advocates for use of city land for public gardening in collaboration with city officials and grassroots groups
• Leads geospatial analysis and community consultation to determine viable gardening locations in the city

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Successfully re-elected immigrant and climate activist Quinton Zondervan to Cambridge City Council in a Ranked-Choice Voting election
• Grew field operation by recruiting and training a team of eight paid canvassers and reaching out to volunteers
• Wrote political material including targeted letters to voters, endorsement questionnaires, weekly newsletters, and social media posts
• Coordinated strategy and a shared get out the vote operation with allied campaigns
• Used voter database in NationBuilder to inform voter contact strategy and create targeted lists for outreach
• Designed graphics for slate literature and outreach materials

Duvall, Washington, United States

• Conducted daily farm tasks to produce organic vegetables in the Snohomish valley including planting seeds, transplanting seedlings, harvesting vegetables, laying irrigation lines, pruning tomatoes, and delivering produce

Boston, MA

• Worked with researcher Anthony Janetos to understand the frequency and impacts of global breadbasket failures
• Analyzed FAO data to define, quantify, and find trends in food shocks in major production countries across various regions
• Using computational program R, created thousands of graphs displaying production trends and wrote code to gather summary statistics for each graph

Tena, Ecuador

• Worked on the German development agency's project in a small Kichwa village in Ecuador's Amazonia to prepare small subsistence farms for climate change by collecting information on seed transfer and production practices
• Independently designed a method to collect information about seed networks by conducting on-site interviews and gathering data through participant-observation techniques while living immersively with a host family
• Wrote a report in Spanish synthesizing the findings with recommendations about how the development agency should proceed with the project

Boston, Massachusetts

• Assisted with National Incubator Farm Training Initiative (NIFTI), a network for incubator farmers to share resources and connect with each other
• Refined shared evaluation tool by soliciting farmer feedback on tool and enhancing its usability
• Created series of case studies on Incubator Farms in NIFTI by conducting outreach and tailoring questions to farms

Master'S Degree, Environmental Science

Conducting socio-ecological research into the role of agro-biodiversity in climate adaptation on farms in the Pacific Northwest.

B.A. In International Relations, Summa Cum Laude, 3.95 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Students for a Just and Stable Future (DivestBU) Wandering Minds (Theater group)Student at Boston University.

High School

International Baccalaureate