Alan Ruiz Berman

Marketing & Development Manager at Living Streets Alliance
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States, US
Languages
  • English -
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Credentials

  • Wilderness First Responder
    Backcountry Medical Guides
    May, 2015
    - Oct, 2024
  • PADI Dive Master & First Aid Responder
    PADI Asia Pacific

Experience

  • Living Streets Alliance
    • United States
    • Civic and Social Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Marketing & Development Manager
      • Jun 2023 - Present

      Fostering strategic relationships, helping people connect deeply to the mission, vision, and work of LSA, cultivating financial sustainability for the organization, developing and implementing strategic communications with allies and partners, supporters, and the public to help LSA build awareness and engagement, mobilize advocates and volunteers on issues, and ensure that supporters and partners know how collective actions are making a difference. Fostering strategic relationships, helping people connect deeply to the mission, vision, and work of LSA, cultivating financial sustainability for the organization, developing and implementing strategic communications with allies and partners, supporters, and the public to help LSA build awareness and engagement, mobilize advocates and volunteers on issues, and ensure that supporters and partners know how collective actions are making a difference.

  • Various
    • Communications Specialist
      • Jun 2020 - Jun 2023

      Securing special use permits from the National Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management & CONANP, Logistics, hosting & naturalist guiding on expeditions to northern Sonora, Mexico, Creating a wide range of marketing materials. Securing special use permits from the National Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management & CONANP, Logistics, hosting & naturalist guiding on expeditions to northern Sonora, Mexico, Creating a wide range of marketing materials.

  • The Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO)
    • Tucson, Arizona, United States
    • Development Communications Manager
      • Oct 2018 - Jun 2020

      > Developing and launching bi-national, capital communications and fundraising campaigns via traditional media, social media, e-newsletters, blog, and website. > Managing donor and collaborator relations and engagement: developing a membership program, hosting lecture series and other events, recording & reporting using FundEZ. > Developing and launching bi-national, capital communications and fundraising campaigns via traditional media, social media, e-newsletters, blog, and website. > Managing donor and collaborator relations and engagement: developing a membership program, hosting lecture series and other events, recording & reporting using FundEZ.

  • Gulf of California Marine Program
    • La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
    • Communications Coordinator CBMC
      • Oct 2017 - Oct 2018

      Facilitating strategic (on-the-ground & digital) communications (events and forums, social media, blog, and website) in support of research and fisheries-based conservation programs directed by the Aburto Lab at Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO). Working closely with an interdisciplinary team of bi-national research, GIS, communications, and program development professionals to develop the Gulf of California Marine Program. Facilitating strategic (on-the-ground & digital) communications (events and forums, social media, blog, and website) in support of research and fisheries-based conservation programs directed by the Aburto Lab at Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO). Working closely with an interdisciplinary team of bi-national research, GIS, communications, and program development professionals to develop the Gulf of California Marine Program.

  • Broadreach Summer Camps
    • Leeward Islands, Caribbean
    • Marine Biology Academic Lead Instructor, Caribbean Marine Biology Voyages
      • May 2016 - Aug 2016

      Teaching a college-level (Lee University NC) Coral Reef Ecology Curriculum (with an emphasis on food webs, symbioses, human impacts & conservation) on two 21 day voyages aboard a 45ft sailing vessel, for more than 40 ambitious high school students. Six students reported that I had inspired them to pursue a career in marine biology and conservation (comm Motts Meuller). Assisting the PADI Dive Instructor with all aspects of dive logistics and implementation as a PADI Dive Master & acting as the Wilderness First Responder aboard the vessel and managing risk assessment and emergency procedures. Sales and Marketing: photos and video taken on assignment used to promote the organization. Show less

  • Puntacana Ecological Foundation, Dominican Republic & Haiti
    • Coral Research & Restoration Assistant
      • Mar 2016 - Aug 2016

       Coral Restoration (70%): Coral nursery maintenance, out-planting, monitoring, and creating a genome specific digital map of the coral nursery and outplant sites using GPS and Power Point.  Research (20%): Coral propagation (natural and artificial), growth-rate, and spawning events of elkhorn and staghorn corals (Acropora & Porites spp.) on local reefs, and an independent study on the density & abundance of the area's depleted sea cucumber communities.  Community Outreach (10%): Training local fishermen as Coral Restoration Assistants and facilitating a mutual learning process. Single-day, bilingual educational programs for (regional) lower, middle & high school students. Blogging about coral restoration work, underwater videography/photography. Painting a local mural with local fisherfolk in Punta Rucia, DR to inspire stewardship of marine resources. Show less

  • Marine Science Institute (MSI)
    • Redwood City, California, United States
    • Marine Science Instructor (SF Bay, Pacific Ocean & Sacramento River Delta)
      • Jan 2016 - Mar 2016

      > Delivering an interdisciplinary science curriculum (K-12), aboard the 100ft Research Vessel (RV) Robert G. Brownlee to hundreds of students from the Bay Area. > Conducting educational programs & presentations on and off-campus at schools, libraries, and field sites, to cultivate local stewardship of riverine & marine ecosystems and local sewage-treatment facilities with associated greywater wetlands. > Delivering an interdisciplinary science curriculum (K-12), aboard the 100ft Research Vessel (RV) Robert G. Brownlee to hundreds of students from the Bay Area. > Conducting educational programs & presentations on and off-campus at schools, libraries, and field sites, to cultivate local stewardship of riverine & marine ecosystems and local sewage-treatment facilities with associated greywater wetlands.

  • Island Bay Marine Education Center & Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust
    • Wellington, New Zealand
    • Discovery Programs Coordinator
      • Mar 2012 - Mar 2014

      > Developing, delivering, and evaluating three national, field-based environmental education programs for regional (K-12) schools: Experiencing Marine Reserves: snorkel-based monitoring of Taputeranga Marine Reserve, South Coast Wellington, NZ / The Whitebait Connection: freshwater ecological monitoring of regional watersheds / Healthy Harbors Wellington: comparing the Marine Reserve to Wellington's urban harbor. > Attending & hosting national MSCT Wanangas - conferences held by Tangata Whenua, traditional-indigenous stewards, on Marae in Northland and Wellington (2012-2013). > Guiding visitors via snorkeling, kayak, and walking naturalist-tours of Wellington's South Coast. Show less

  • CircleLink Health IT
    • Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
    • Customer Support and Data-Entry Assistant
      • Jan 2011 - Dec 2011

      I used Microsoft excel along with several online databases to establish an effective way to track and contact Spanish speaking diabetes patients in CA, and provided customer support. I used Microsoft excel along with several online databases to establish an effective way to track and contact Spanish speaking diabetes patients in CA, and provided customer support.

  • St. Vincent's Health Services, Bridgeport CT
    • United States
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • SWIM Across the Sound, Volunteer Fundraising Intern
      • Mar 2011 - Aug 2011

      Facilitating fundraising campaigns for cancer patients and their families, including golf tournaments, food and wine tastings, and an annual swimming marathon. Facilitating fundraising campaigns for cancer patients and their families, including golf tournaments, food and wine tastings, and an annual swimming marathon.

  • CEDO Centro Intercultural de Estudios de Desiertos y Océanos
    • United States
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Ecotourism Intern
      • Jan 2010 - Dec 2010

      Hosted visiting groups and naturalist excursions (at Ramsar wetland conservation sites, Islands of the Gulf of California UNESCO World Heritage Site, El Pinacate and Great Desert of Altar Biosphere Reserve). Designed original exhibits for CEDO that have lasted unto today, including a sea turtle mural & display and a preserved specimen collection. Hosted visiting groups and naturalist excursions (at Ramsar wetland conservation sites, Islands of the Gulf of California UNESCO World Heritage Site, El Pinacate and Great Desert of Altar Biosphere Reserve). Designed original exhibits for CEDO that have lasted unto today, including a sea turtle mural & display and a preserved specimen collection.

  • CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
    • United States
    • Government Administration
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Lead Naturalist at Sherwood Island State Park
      • Apr 2009 - Sep 2009

      Managed the Estuarine Environment Nature Center in its first season of operations. Created exhibits and dioramas. Led discussions, lectures, nature walks and ecology classes. Developed experiences and exhibits with a minimal budget. Managed the Estuarine Environment Nature Center in its first season of operations. Created exhibits and dioramas. Led discussions, lectures, nature walks and ecology classes. Developed experiences and exhibits with a minimal budget.

  • Asociación PRETOMA
    • Costa Rica
    • Coordinator for Pacific Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches
      • Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

      Nightly nesting-event monitoring, anti-poaching outreach and education, nest relocation, and hatchery monitoring and maintenance on Costa Rica’s rugged Pacific Coast / Training a local man to be a major ally of the conservation effort / Writing & illustrating a book about local participation in sea turtle conservation. Nightly Research: flipper tagging & collecting size nesting event data, conducting daily hatchery maintenance & nest excavations. Nightly nesting-event monitoring, anti-poaching outreach and education, nest relocation, and hatchery monitoring and maintenance on Costa Rica’s rugged Pacific Coast / Training a local man to be a major ally of the conservation effort / Writing & illustrating a book about local participation in sea turtle conservation. Nightly Research: flipper tagging & collecting size nesting event data, conducting daily hatchery maintenance & nest excavations.

Education

  • Victoria University of Wellington
    Master of Arts - MA, Marine Conservation
    2011 - 2012
  • Prescott College
    Bachelor of Arts - BA, Marine Studies & Visual Arts
    2005 - 2008

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