Experience

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  Greenpeace USA

  • United States
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Project Lead, Ocean Sanctuaries and Stop Deep Sea Mining

    • Dec 2021 - Present

    ● Represents Greenpeace's US office on the themes of Ocean Sanctuaries and Deep Sea Mining.● Co-led a project team in fundraising and developing a new global priority campaign to Stop Deep Sea Mining, including developing the project idea and gaining approval for a campaign project agreement.● Leads a US project team on campaign activities to advocate for a new Global Ocean Treaty (BBNJ) and global network of fully and highly protected ocean sanctuaries to cover 30% of the global ocean by 2030.● Represents Greenpeace International on the political delegation to BBNJ Intergovernmental Conferences, delegation lead to the International Seabed Authority, and at other intergovernmental meetings such as Our Ocean and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD ) Consultative Meetings.● Supports fundraising, donor relations, media outreach and comms work on ocean issues for the US office.

  • Senior Oceans Campaigner

    • Mar 2019 - Dec 2021

    Advocate for Ocean Sanctuaries and for stopping deep sea mining. Represented Greenpeace USA on a range of ocean issues, particularly in regards to the science and policy framing of ocean sanctuaries, high seas governance, and the protection of wildlife and ecosystems in the deep and open ocean.● Represented the global Greenpeace Protect the Oceans campaign in the US office, coordinating across programmatic teams to facilitate GPUS participation in global goals and activities.● Served as Co-Lead for the Sargasso Sea Leg of Greenpeace’s Pole to Pole expedition and as shipboard Project Lead on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza during the scientific survey portion of the expedition.● Served as a member of the global Protect the Oceans policy working group, and as a member of the Greenpeace political delegation to the intergovernmental conferences towards a international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, and related political events.

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  I am Wilderness

  • Frederick, Maryland

  • Principal - Science and Conservation Communications, Policy and Research

    • Nov 2006 - Mar 2019
    • Frederick, Maryland

    * Conservation program and outreach development* Strategic communications planning and implementation* Scientific surveys, assessments and reporting*Federal grants review and assessment* NMFS Marine endangered species observer (MESO) and Marine Mammal Observer (MMO)* Digital media production* Soc...

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  Trip by Skyscanner

  • Menlo Park, California

  • Travel Correspondent

    • Mar 2011 - Apr 2016
    • Menlo Park, California

    * 'Tribe' leader, Gogobot Eco-Travel Tribe - organizing, curating and providing expertise on sustainable travel and eco destinations.* Provided expertise for the world's "Obscure Places" (everything from Antarctica and the Amazon to remote South Pacific atolls).* Provided ex...

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  Maryland Coastal Bays Program

  • Ocean City, Maryland

  • Watershed Coordinator

    • Oct 2012 - Aug 2014
    • Ocean City, Maryland

    .• Coordination and preparation of EPA reporting..• Preparation, stakeholder coordination and delivery of public engagement and climate change components of a renewed Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan for the Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP).• Development of climate change a...

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  Stanford University

  • Monterey, California

  • Public Affairs Officer, Center for Ocean Solutions

    • Apr 2009 - Nov 2010
    • Monterey, California

    • Led development of high level outreach strategies for communicating critical messages of the partnership and its individual initiatives. • Provided communications leadership to the Center, and public affairs support to key leadership. Led writing/editing of core documents, publishing of a semi-...

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  Conservation International

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Director, Global Marine Strategies

    • Nov 2003 - Oct 2006
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    • Supported coordination efforts for conference follow on activities within CI and among partner NGOs in regards to the Defying Ocean’s End (DOE) Agenda for Action (a global agenda for marine conservation, management, exploration and ocean governance).• Assistant editor for the book, Defying Ocea...

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  Nova Southeastern University

  • Dania Beach, Floria

  • Graduate Research Assistant and Scientific Diver

    • Sep 2001 - Nov 2003
    • Dania Beach, Floria

    • Conducted monthly sampling surveys of ichthyofauna associated with pelagic Sargassum habitat as well as completed dissections, histological work, and took size data on multiple Histrio histrio (sargassum fish) as part of thesis research.• Conducted fish counts throughout the Broward County reef...

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  Broward County Sea Turtle Conservation Program

  • Fort Lauderdale, Florida

  • Sea Turtle Technician

    • May 2002 - Sep 2003
    • Fort Lauderdale, Florida

    • Monitored sea turtle nesting, collected data on nests and false crawls, and relocated nests to hatcheries.• Monitored sea turtle hatcheries and released hatchlings.• Conducted excavations and collected data from both in situ and relocated nests following hatchings.

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  National Park Service

  • Biscayne National Park, Florida

  • Biological Science Technician

    • Feb 2002 - Oct 2002
    • Biscayne National Park, Florida

    • Prepared thematic summaries of scientific research relevant to Biscayne National Park.• Updated and maintained a bibliographic database of park research literature.

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  Fundación Jatun Sacha

  • Quito, Ecuador

  • Director, Coastal Conservation Program

    • 1998 - 2001
    • Quito, Ecuador

    • Established, Directed & Developed the Congal Biomarine Station and Center for the Investigation of Sustainable Aquaculture in the Muisne Estuary, Esmeraldas Province. Role included project and infrastructure development on the ground and financial and publicity development for the entire co...

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  Conservation International

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • On-Line Expedition Coordinator

    • Mar 1997 - Sep 1998
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    • Created and helped design a series of Internet pages that provide information on the Brazilian Pantanal region, including a template for the “On-line Expedition”.• Managed international translating resources and implemented the creation of both Spanish and Portuguese mirror sites to the existin...

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  Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

  • Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

  • Forest Technician

    • Feb 1996 - Jul 1996
    • Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

    Mapped and measured trees on a fifty hectare plot of lowland Amazonian rainforest; trail maintenance; collected and preserved fertile plant specimens; and made preliminary identifications of tree taxonomy. Part of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Center for Tropical Forest Scien...