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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, United States

Developing digital and in-person marketing and communications plans of Sunset Mercantile events. Ensuring marketing materials and content are in line with the SM brand, community, and audience. Working closely with the Social Media Manager, and the Sponsorship Project Manager.

San Francisco, California, United States

Working closely with the Sunset Mercantile staff and other community partners toensure a successful Sunset Mercantile Community Space event.Curating an event, adding all necessary components to achieve programming goals. Duties included coordinating with the SM team, vendor outreach and management, and intergrating activities to fit the event's themes, launch activity deadlines are met, and ongoing event operationalchallenges are addressed.

Pacifica, California, United States

Launched a small business to help reduce the fashion industry's environmental impact by raising awareness and making sustainable alternatives more accessible to the communityServices include: Online vintage/ secondhand boutique, consultation services, workshops, community engagement and sharing information and trends for educational purposesAttend pop-up events and festivals to market products, share our mission, and network

From 2016-2019, I took an extended Maternity leave to focus on having and raising my 2 small children. Below are some career related projects I was involved with during this time.Freelance Consultant (2019) - Provided consulting for a local real estate development project; identified environmental risks and social impacts and developed plans to mitigate them. Playgroup Representative (2016- 2020) - Volunteer based role as a Representative within the Pacifica Mothers club. Created a community "playgroup" of similar aged kids and helped guide families transition into their new roles by: Providing tools and resources to new families Organizing and scheduling playdates Sending weekly newsletter with events other useful information to members Acting as a point of contactCity of Pacifica Sea Level Rise Committee (2017-2018) Was part of the CIty of Pacifica's working group to provide consultation about their Sea Level Rise Plan. Acted as a liaison between the city and the community to provide transparency

San Mateo

Duties included researching local trends affecting the economy, environment, and society to produce an in depth report to be used by the public for planning purposes.Also responsible to research recent local, state and federal legislative action relevant to a particular indicator affecting our community.In addition created “Solution” or “Take Action” articles providing suggestions for sustainable management

Technical-Assessed client’s needs and provided monitoring solutions to investigate and analyze various environmental parameters. Created proposals and other documents to outline how the scope of the project will be met, using our monitoring systems. Provided ongoing technical and troubleshooting services. Required to be familiar with provincial and federal guidelines for monitoring methods.Project management- coordinated with various parties involved, sourced resources , prioritized and delegating workload to ensure deadline of projects were met

Lead sessions to educate public about renewable energy. Created program awareness by informing public about organization’s sustainability initiatives

Subcontracted to collect marine sediments for toxicity research

Researched and Proposed energy conservation strategies. Worked closely with a green team to provide tools to monitor and reduce environmental impact of events.

Bsc., Environmental Science

Activities and Societies: Attended Goldschmidt conference 2008 on geosciences, David Suzuki speak 2008 on Universities and role.

University Transfer, General Science

Took Sciences to satisfy the prerequisites for University of British Columbia, Environmental Science Program, which only accepted students.