Zimyl Adler Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Facilitate collaborative coalition organizing and movement-building with a diverse set of organizations and people working toward building a just, resilient food system through national and international campaigns for.
• Build and maintain relationships to build power and advance shared policy goals with communities affected by industrial, chemical-intensive agriculture (small farmers, rural communities, Native and Indigenous.
• Identify and coordinate national and international campaigns that build engagement and power on agriculture and pesticide issues.
• Support communications for online and narrative organizing strategies.
• Build relationships with decision-makers and influencers, including legislators, state agency staff, researchers, and international pesticide regulation and food system agencies (UN, FAO).
• Maintain high-level of knowledge regarding scientific and policy contexts on agriculture, agroecology, and global food systems issues.

Landisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Planned and facilitated annual retreat to advance goals around diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) training in the food system. Developed activities and adapted anti-oppression tools and key terms for understanding power, privilege and intersection of racial justice and the food system.

Planned and facilitated the EFOD Steering Committee retreat. Created and guided process for developing theory of change, renewed organization vision, and determined strategic goals and committee-level work for next three years.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Manage community partnerships, deepening relationships with community groups and labor movement partners to build power for low-wage workers who face discrimination and violations of their rights at work.
• Oversee all community education programs, including trainings, outreach, and education strategies.
• Develop new popular education workshops and curriculum about workers’ rights in Seattle, SeaTac, Yakima, and WA.
• Manage three government-funded contracts sub-granted to seven community organizations, providing technical support, training, and capacity building to partners.
• Develop systems of community accountability across organization.
• Identify and develop opportunities for community collaboration to shift industry enforcement of labor standards.

Seattle, WA

• Manage international campaign to promote African-initiated programs rooted in agroecological farming practices, social equity, and food sovereignty.
• Maintain ongoing consultations and feedback processes with African partners
• Organized panel with Kenyan, South African & European groups at 2016 UN COP on Biodiversity
• Developed new narrative strategy
• Spearheaded successful application process for membership in Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
• Organized 2017 South Africa-US Agroecology ExchangeCo-direct Food Justice & Trade Justice program areas: Coordinate with campaign partners and committees to strengthen organizing with people of color, farmworkers.

Oakland, CA

• Harvesting Justice Program Coordination
• Advance campaigns in Haiti against mining, agribusiness, tourism, and free-trade industries; and in Honduras on human rights and environmental defense; leverage international human rights law, demand withdrawal of.
• Research, write, and edit articles, press statements, action alerts, newsletters, and activist interviews.
• Manage communications and resource sharing with organizing networks, frontline movements, and media.
• Act as point-person for US Food Sovereignty Alliance and other coalition working groups and local partners via consistent communication, meeting facilitation, outreach, in-person exchanges, and collaboration.
• Grew media distribution lists from approx. 4500 to 7000 individuals, segmented lists for targeted reach, and increased coverage from approx. 100 to 150 sources since 9/2014, including Washington Post, Democracy Now!.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Published articles on eco-consumer news sites.
• Researched and coordinated grant opportunities for nonprofit clients.

Oakland

• Published media (blogs, press releases, briefs, social media) for international campaign against dam development and palm oil plantations in Borneo, Indonesia and Malaysia.
• Organized local events and community outreach.
• Wrote web content for partner organization (www.savesarawakrivers.com)

Berkeley

• Led research on dam building industry, corporate and government relations, contract procurement and financing, and social and environmental standards.
• Wrote an internationally-distributed people’s guide for affected communities to fight back against the hydropower industry.
• Exposed findings through reports and policy briefs, including on topics of Chinese overseas dam building in Africa; social-environmental standards for dam building; corporate-government corruption ties in dam building.
• Developed a database and tracking map of dam building corporations.

Pittsburgh, PA

Led outreach to social-change organizations in counties of southwestern PA to coordinate regional events and support community-based projects. Successfully organized and delivered a 5K Run & Walk (Running Green for Three Rivers) for sustainability awareness.

Philadelphia, PA

Developed a compendium manual, Green Jobs Training Program, on sustainable environmental professions. Assisted in project development and partnerships with training and certification institutions and relations with community centers in Greater Philadelphia. Supported organization's youth programs and urban gardening initiative. Maintained donor database.

Philadelphia

Created a year-long project on global water-crisis awareness, involving research, community outreach, and public presentations. Collaborated on community-building and activism training activities; volunteered with local organizations.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), International Relations And French

Activities and Societies: • Member of Bennington Sustainable Food Project • Campus Organizer: Sowing the Seeds for a Better Farm Bill.

Water Accessiblity In Rurual Senegal: Field Research

Conducted independent field work and community-level research on clean water access in rural regions of Senegal. Wrote a 50-page report in.