Experience

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  The Town Of Barnstable

  • Open Space Planner & Grants Coordinator
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  Town of Barnstable Planning & Development

  • United States

  • Grants Coordinator

    • Jun 2022 - Present
    • United States
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  The Community School at Cape Cod Tech

  • United States

  • Course Facilitator

    • Sep 2022 - Present
    • United States

    Program development, budgeting and instruction for adult learners, MA state grant for workforce development in horticulture, landscape trades and green infrastructure

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  Brooklyn Skate Garden/ Pablo Ramirez Foundation

  • Brooklyn, New York, United States

  • Strategy & Planning Leadership Guide

    • Feb 2020 - Present
    • Brooklyn, New York, United States

    Not for Profit advisement, Fundraising, Strategic Planning, Event Management & Community Engagement for the design and development of a new public skate park within NYC Parks Dept

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  Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll)

  • Cape Cod MA

  • Volunteer Mentor: small business planning and strategy

    • Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
    • Cape Cod MA
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  Leadership Cape Cod

  • Leadership Development Program

    • Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

    Six month internship program in community development to examine equity, sustainability and resilience with a final group community project.

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  Groundworks Inc. Garden Design

  • Brooklyn, NY

  • President & Co-Owner

    • Feb 2002 - Feb 2020
    • Brooklyn, NY

    Owner/ Designer: Groundworks Inc - Boutique landscape design/build firm. W/MBE certified: Project Planning, Green Infrastructure, Management & Sales- residential, commercial and institutional gardens in and around New York City: rooftops, terraces, backyards, large Condo & Co-op Buildin...

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  WE DIG PLANTS - radio show host @ Heritage Radi...

  • Studio @ Roberta's Pizza, Bushwick Brooklyn

  • Podcast Creator, Producer & Show Host

    • Jan 2010 - Dec 2017
    • Studio @ Roberta's Pizza, Bushwick Brooklyn

    Award Winning weekly internet show dedicated to all horticultural initiatives, Over 12,000 monthly listeners at broadcast and over 200 shows to date - topics include authors, designers, landscape architects, urban planners, nursery growers/marketers etc.www.HeritageRadioNetwork.org/We Dig Plants2...

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  Brooklyn Blend Soil - Compost & Potting Soi...

  • Brooklyn, NY

  • Principal, Owner

    • Sep 2011 - Dec 2016
    • Brooklyn, NY

    sold internationally & nationally @ West Elm MARKET (Williams Sonoma), GreenDepot, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and local shops in Brooklyn, NY

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  Botanicals, Environmental Expressions in Art: T...

  • traveling botanical art exhibit

  • Co-Curator

    • 2007 - Dec 2013
    • traveling botanical art exhibit

    The largest American botanical art collection by 1 collector: 54 paintings by International Painters of Botanical Art. Opened, October 2009 @ The Hunt Institute for Botanical Art/Carnegie Mellon University, traveling to KEW, Royal Botanical Garden in 2013 and onward to Tel Aviv etc.. TBDResponsib...

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  Outside NY

  • Owner

    • Feb 2006 - Mar 2008

    Wrote Business Plan and secured over $350K in start-up investment capital for Urban Garden Center. Adaptative reuse 2000 sf warehouse and 5000sf outdoor lot for the display of furniture, plants, unusual containers and design services. Responsible for web design, marketing, display merchandising, ...

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  The Horticultural Society of New York

  • Program Director

    • Aug 1996 - Apr 2003

    DIRECTOR of GREENBRANCHES Program to design, install and maintain gardens at historical Carnegie branch libraries in New York City. Capital Funding, Community Development, Workforce Training and Corporate Sponsorship via grant writing and special event programming, 18 gardens designed and instal...