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Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Groveland, California, United States

• Prepared for and guided wilderness backpacking trips in Yosemite National Park for adult and youth participants. Responsibilities included:
• Facilitating adventure-based learning experiences on topics including Leave No Trace, technical outdoor skills, personal growth, teamwork, interpersonal communication and conflict, and Yosemite’s natural history and.
• Providing excellent customer service to trip participants in the front- and backcountry by communicating proactively, accommodating special requests, and ensuring that every client receives individualized, positive.
• Performing risk management and providing medical care up to my level of training (Wilderness First Responder).

Portland, Oregon Area

I worked to engage communities on projects that affect the built and natural environments they experience every day. With a particular focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation, active and public transportation, and renewable energy I worked directly with EnviroIssues’ clients in the public and private sectors to help them execute effective public.

Portland, Oregon Area

Supported the design and implementation of public involvement and communications projects with a focus on active and public transportation, clean energy, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. This work included engaging with stakeholders and the general public in-person and electronically, developing communications materials, analyzing data, and.

Orange, CT

Crop planning, planting, tending, and harvesting the crops grown on the one acre farm. Planned and managed weekly volunteer workdays. Instituted a new series of educational workshops and events on the farm that led to increased turnout and volunteer engagement.

Led 6-day backpacking trips for incoming freshmen. Employed technical skills such as wilderness first aid, wayfinding, backcountry cooking, backcountry gear repair, etc. Managed group dynamics for diverse group and encouraged student growth by promoting teamwork, supporting students who had physical and emotional difficulties on the trip, and mentoring.

New Haven, CT

Developed and taught a curriculum on entrepreneurial and professional development skills and environmental education for the Growing Entrepreneurs program – a jobs program for high school students from diverse backgrounds. Also managed the grant writing efforts of multiple staff including developing strategy, reviewing and editing applications, and.

New Haven, CT

Coordinated educational events and volunteer workdays in the New Haven Land Trust nature preserves, wrote and reviewed grant applications, researched and wrote educational content for informational signs in the nature preserves, undertook property acquisition research, and met with community leaders in New Haven to create partnerships between the New Haven.

New Haven, CT

Worked closely with one other Preserves Outreach and Education Coordinator to plan and staff educational events and volunteer workdays in the New Haven Land Trust nature preserves. Other responsibilities included planning and implementing infrastructure improvements in the nature preserves, managing social media accounts, and meeting with New Haven.

New Haven, CT

Ran practices three days a week for the Yale Climbing Team -- an indoor club sport at Yale University with approximately 80 team members that competes in USA Climbing's Collegiate Climbing Series. Organized fundraising and recruiting events for the team and planned logistics for the team's competitions. Acted as the liaison between the Climbing Team and.

New Haven, CT

Planned logistics for six outdoor rock climbing trips (four week-long trips and two weekend trips) for members of the Yale Climbing Team. Prepared and delivered safety workshops for 15-20 undergraduates prior to each of the trips.

Bachelor’S Degree, Environmental History

Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Distinction in the History Major. Nominated for the American History Prize for Senior Essay/Thesis entitled.

Spanish Language And Grammar

Took eight weeks of intensive Spanish language and grammar courses at the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina and completed.

Education record

Graduated with Highest Honors, National Merit Scholarship Finalist, Advanced Placement Scholar with Distinction, awarded “Principal’s.