Rebecca Meuninck, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

United States

Ann Arbor, MI

• Serves as the Deputy Director of a nationally-known environmental health organization with an annual budget of over $2 million dollars and 18 permanent staff. Leads the Environmental Health team as their Strategic Team.
• Leadership: Provide insightful leadership on strategic planning, budgeting, fundraising, and personnel matters on the Ecology Center’s Management Team. Leadership on three board/staff committees: Marketing and.
• Finance and Development: Tripled the amount of grant funds awarded to our Environmental and secured grants from eight new foundations over six years. Coordinated the work of the development department leading to a 25%.
• Human Resources: Created and implemented a new staff orientation process and mentorship program for onboarding 15 new permanent and temporary staff. Created and implemented an exit interview protocol for departing.
• Communications and Marketing: Served as an Ecology Center spokesperson successfully garnering national, state, and local media attention for our Healthy Stuff project, and children’s environmental health campaigns.
• Programs and Campaigns: Led successful policy and market campaigns to protect people from toxic chemicals. Founded the Great Lake Lead Elimination Network and co-founded the Great Lakes PFAS Action Network. Recent.

• Led the state and national Policy work of the Ecology Center and the Michigan Network for Children’s Environmental Health a coalition of over 20 health, health affected, and environmental organizations.
• Worked with our Healthy Stuff scientists to lead campaigns on and gain press coverage on our studies on toxic chemicals in consumer products.
• Served as Union Steward to work with our unit, management, and the UAW to draft and approve our first new contract in 10 years. (2012-2014)

Developed the Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change (GJEC) and GenCen Internship Programs.· Act as a liaison between diverse groups of students, faculty, and NGOs.· Advised and placed students in domestic and international environmental or social justice internships.· Helped develop a new MSU study abroad internship program in Ghana and Malawi

Developed exercises, course text, and audio-visual content for an online anthropology course ANP 200 "Navigating Another Culture."

· Taught grades 1-12, conducted classes in various subjects, mediated problems between students, and retained a positive learning environment.

· Planned daily fund-raising canvassing.· Motivated co-workers, trained new employees, fundraised, and managed canvassers in the field.

Bs, Environmental Anthropology

Activities and Societies: Environmental Action Facilitator Environmental Justice Group

Ph.D, Sociocultural Anthropology; Culture Resources And Power

Activities and Societies: Dissertation - Negotiating Fairness: A Feminist Political Ecology of Fair Trade and Organic Coffee Production in.

Ma, Sociocultural Anthropology

Activities and Societies: Specialization: Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change MSU Students for Fair Trade