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• Providing development, coordination, and outreach to improve health equity in public health programs in Minnesota.

• Contracting with various agencies from independent health communication companies, non-profit organizations, and federal government agencies to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate public health programs and health.
• Focus areas in nutrition education, health communication strategies, health education material development and more.

• Conducted qualitative research studies with diverse audiences to inform national public health campaigns and health communication strategies for public and private sector organizations such as the U.S. Department of.
• Project work focused on using a health equity, racial equity, and health literacy lens to develop public health programs and campaigns in the areas of women’s health, adolescent health, adolescent physical activity.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Prepared presentations and engaged in weekly UN seminars with experienced foreign affairs professionals on current key global issues as they are faced in various UN agencies.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conducted preliminary research and provided start-up program support for a DC-built, clinical-community initiative that connects families to nutrition, physical activity, and community resources, called the Family.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Provided M&E support for WfWIs’s social and economic empowerment programs.
• Conducted qualitative data analysis for focus groups and interviews to evaluate community attitudes about violence against women in Afghanistan, Nigeria and the DRC.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Managed clinical and community health outreach events to serve the East African immigrant and refugee community in Minneapolis, each reaching 50-300 people.
• Managed the opening of a satellite school-based health clinic for a local high school serving 250 multilingual refugee and immigrant students.
• Designed and led a series of culturally sensitive nutrition and healthy cooking classes for 30 patients at risk of diabetes and hypertension with the support of Somali and Oromo translators.
• Expanded partnerships and kickstarted initiatives to address food insecurity for patients including cultural inclusive food prescription boxes

Ithaca, New York Area

• Managed several community health outreach programs in partnership with local non profits in Managua, Nicaragua and Puyo, Ecuador.
• Responsible for the oversight of all marketing, fundraising and staffing for the Cornell University chapter.

Managua, Nicaragua

• Worked with a local non-profit organization (Atraves) in the outskirts of Managua, Nicaragua to carry out various projects/programs alongside the local community
• Collaborated with farmers and local school administrators to develop and expand community gardens and develop nutrition and environmental education lessons for students K-12

Ithaca, NY

• Research Assistant for the Community-Engaged Nutrition Research (CENTIR) Group.
• Assisted with the 2015 Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) program in Tanzania. Worked alongside nutrition experts from five leading Tanzanian health institutions and researchers at Cornell University to collaborate and report.

Moshi, Tanzania

• Conducted research with 15 medical professionals at KCMC and developed and presented a policy case study on cervical cancer and access to the HPV vaccine in the Moshi area.
• Developed a cross-cultural nutrition and healthy eating class for a group of 40 students at Kusirye-U Primary School and a local elementary school in the U.S.

Ithaca, New York, United States

• Partnered with Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Food Bank of the Southern Tier to develop and implement a culturally sensitive healthy eating and nutrition curriculum in schools for students ages 8-11.

Bachelor'S Degree (Bs), Nutritional Sciences With A Global Health Minor And Inequality Studies Minor

Activities and Societies: President of Nourish International, Captain of Cornell's D-1 Women's Ultimate Frisbee Team

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Global Health Program Design, Monitoring And Evaluation