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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Leading certification reporting activities for Taking Root’s forest carbon removal projects.We enable smallholder farmers to grow trees and earn money from the carbon they remove from the atmosphere. We do this by giving our reforestation partners the technology and support to create transparent and robust forest carbon removals.

Performing policy research on conservation-based economies to support biodiversity and management of species at risk with the Ministry of Water, Land, and Resource Stewardship

Forest Sector Contributions to Sustainable Development (SDG11) - sustainable wooden construction and human shelter in low-carbon societies.

Philippines

Consultant to the UNDP Innovation for Social Impact Partnership (ISIP), coordinating Philippine University startup incubators and their smallholder-buyer networks in communities on (i) business sustainability, social entrepreneurship & forests and landscape restoration, (ii) startup mentoring, and (iii) social entrepreneurship incubator operations through on-site and virtual lectures, workshops, and one-on-one consultation sessions with startup teams.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Investigating success factors of community forest enterprises (CFEs) as a hybrid organization form in the natural resource sector, particularly the role of leadership and governance in balancing pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunity and stakeholder accountability.

Vancouver

Through the Mitacs Accelerate Graduate Research Program, supporting bc211's strategy to enhance earned-revenue activities and identify social enterprise pathways. In that capacity, I fulfilled the following short-term consultancy tasks:1. Conducting in-house interviews and price-benchmarking to assess existing earned-revenue activities2. Focus group and stakeholder mapping to identify opportunities for social enterprise activities3. Implementing willingness to pay client survey for selected earned-revenue strategies4. Preparing report for executive consumptionLink to Mitacs Accelerate Program Website: https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/accelerate

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

Conducting research on the role of citizen energy cooperatives in the context of the European 2020 renewable energy targets. Responsible for data collection and report-writing.Link to project report:https://cl.boell.org/sites/default/files/la_energia_en_manos_ciudadanas.pdf

Vienna

Supporting project management at the WU Competence Center for Social Entrepreneurship & Nonprofit Organizations.

Bogota,D.C., Capital District, Colombia

Supported head staff of ACADIS environmental nonprofit in planning and implementing a project on recycling enterprise opportunities for communities in the city periphery districts of Bogota.My role was:- Serving as liaison with partnering local waste management facilities - Organization of community briefings and workshops- Designing newsletters and communication materials for project partners- Creating a neighborhood map that highlights recycling collection hubs

Vienna

Worked for Friends of the Earth Europe Member ‘Global 2000’ in Vienna. Assisted the team lead of a project for the promotion of sustainable traffic in Austria. Project partners included the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, as well as Austrian companies that engaged in promoting their employees to commute by bike or public transport to work. Pursued multiple administrative tasks, communicated with project partners and organized events

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Natural Resources And Sustainability , Ubc Faculty Of Forestry

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Socioeconomics

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Development Studies

In teaching and research the Department of Development Studies focuses on the transdisciplinary analysis and critique of global.

Joint Studies Program

Attended courses in sociology of work, environment and culture; as well as business and society

Erasmus Mundus Program, Politics Of The Environment And Development

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