Simone Herbin Email & Phone Number

New York, NY

Provided technical assistance, capacity building, and material support for over 50 community gardens groups in Harlem while also facilitating trainings on community engagement, group development, and leadership skills for gardeners throughout NYC

Queens, NY

• Oversaw food access programming including weekly food pantry and farmers market serving over 100 community members, coordinated monthly nutrition education and healthy cooking events, and monthly volunteer meetings

Muir Beach, CA

• Designed and implemented experiential food, farm, and outdoor education programs for K-12 students and families through daily field trips, summer camp and themed-family days

New York, NY

• Provided training and technical support to a cadre of 20 schools and organizations implementing Campus Pantry, BackPack, and Community Cookshop programming and gathered evaluation data for grant reporting

New York City

• Organized four borough-based community listening sessions and a citywide equity training for non-profit practitioners and government agencies while managing administrative tasks and external communications

Brooklyn, NY

• Developed and implemented garden and nutrition education program for 4-12 years olds
• Maintained attendance and administrative records

New York City

• Conducted data collection concerning residents’ grocery shopping habits in field through surveys, focus groups, stakeholder interviews, and event observations to evaluate intervention strategies for community.

Brooklyn, NY

• Managed a network of 30 schools and recruited 10 additional schools to train school wellness teams, provide technical support for healthy school environment projects and policy campaigns, created program evaluation.

• Assisted with recruiting, selecting, and enrolling 80-member national AmeriCorps class to serve in schools across the country as well as coordinated bi-annual trainings and quarterly events for service corps members.

Greater New York City Area

• Recruited volunteers for 2012 Black Farmers & Urban Growers conference
• Managed volunteer inquires
• Developed list of volunteer tasks
• Organized and coordinated volunteer schedule

Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn

• Coordinated the launch of the pilot Healthy Schools program at a Brooklyn elementary school, establishing a school wellness council, implementing healthy nutrition and culinary education, as well as conducting and.

Brooklyn College

• tutoring students in coursework
• assisting students with projects
• assisting with classroom management
• maintaining grades and attendance records

Brooklyn, NY

• developed sustainability and social justice curriculum for high school students
• conduct and chaperone tours of local community gardens, farmers' markets, and food cooperatives
• manage gardening tasks for constructing early childhood garden

New York City

• Gathered information for reports and policy papers
• Interviewed experts for reports and policy papers
• Extracted data from public records for analysis
• Composed memos for future reference

Brooklyn, NY

• Trained and managed editors and staff writers
• Developed, assigned, and edited stories
• Monitored website and newspaper production
• Managed budget

Brooklyn, NY

• Gathered data and tracking mechanisms for current projects
• Designed projects to incorporate student organizations
• Developed publicity campaign for Council to increase awareness
• Organized council meetings, took and distributed minutes