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 policy and practice change. Organizing & Advocacy•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 organizations, farmers of color, farmworkers, among others).•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.•Act as spokesperson for media and generate earned media on issues.•Write for traditional and social media to reframe public conversation. (Twitter: @simoneilana / blogs: www.panna.org/blogs/simone-adler)•Represent PANNA in decision-making forums.Management & Shared Leadership•Lead the National Team and spearhead campaigns in the International Team with partner organizations.•Plan and facilitate regular team meetings, planning processes, and campaign organizing.•Act as peer-supervisor in shared leadership model with other Organizing Co-Directors.•Supervise interns.•Manage team budgets, and share responsibilities for strategic planning among Organizing team.•Co-facilitate internal anti-oppression and racial equity processes. Fundraising•Work with fundraising staff on grant reports and proposals. •Build relationships with funders and major donors.

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.• Supervise three program staff, promoting power-sharing; developing leadership and skills.• Serve on Leadership Team to guide overall programmatic vision; strategic planning; and organizational merging of education, organizing, and legal services rooted in racial equity and decision-making informed by workers.

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, labor unions, and frontline communities in the food system; lobby members of congress and legislators for fair trade policies. Community Organizing: •Develop, implement, and evaluate short & long-term campaign strategies•Organize & lead direct actions•Facilitate meetings, workshops, trainings & community events using anti-oppression framework•Oversee database management•Increased membership retention by 27% in 2018 with 1:1 processLeadership Development/Political Education:•Created and facilitated Rise Up! Summer School, a 3-month political education program on anti-oppression and food sovereignty; retained 30 participants•Developed curriculum on racial justice in the food system; retained 10 participants in new program•Manage, train, supervise interns & volunteersCoalition Building: Represent in coalitions and alliances; organized 5 coalition-wide evets for hundreds of people across the USFundraising: co-manage 3 annual cycles including annual 300-person dinner•Cultivate donor relationships•Write grant proposals, reports, appeals•Secured multi-year grants & increased sustaining monthly donations by 10% from 2016-2018Communications: Write articles, blogs, press statements, newsletters, publications; manage on listservs, social media, and website•Liaise with media•Spoke as panelist

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 project financing, and organize for political change to safeguard protection for communities and activists.• 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!, Truth Out, Common Dreams, and Alternet.• Coordinated four article series: Cultivating Climate Justice, Black Cooperative Economics, African Seed and Food Sovereignty, and Haitian Land Rights.• Increased series-specific distribution throughout US, Europe, and Africa via over 40 e-media and other sites.• Ensure integrity of mission, vision, and strategy in connection to program goals and consensus-building.Operations Coordination• Used Google Drive and collaboration tools to establish and maintain databases and organizational systems.• Manage donor relations and cultivate 1:1 relationships with funders; maintain donor database on CiviCRM. • Develop and track grant applications and reports; helped secure $30,000, $20,000, and $18,000 grants. • Support budget planning and financial coordination at organization and project levels, lead annual reporting.• Oversee website administration and communication platforms; organize public events; and manage interns.

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 plans across Malaysia; and international law on rights of indigenous people impacted by extractive resource industries.•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 and reviewed membership criteria.

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.