Experience

Growing Places

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Grant Coordinator

  • Nov 2021 - Present

  Coordinate and write grants for Growing Places. Expand programming to integrate environmental issues. Coordinate and write grants for Growing Places. Expand programming to integrate environmental issues.



University at Buffalo

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Support Specialist

  • Jan 2019 - Oct 2021

  Assist the Environmental Health Study for Western New York with community education and engagement. Created presentations and videos that integrated environmental and health issues. Watch the videos here: https://ehstudy.buffalo.edu/ehresources/workshopsehs. Wrote and designed quarterly Fun Facts on health and environmental health topics: https://ehstudy.buffalo.edu/ehresources/fun-facts Assist the Environmental Health Study for Western New York with community education and engagement. Created presentations and videos that integrated environmental and health issues. Watch the videos here: https://ehstudy.buffalo.edu/ehresources/workshopsehs. Wrote and designed quarterly Fun Facts on health and environmental health topics: https://ehstudy.buffalo.edu/ehresources/fun-facts



City of Lawrence

• Lawrence, Massachusetts

• Resource Development Consultant

  • Feb 2016 - Mar 2020

  Research funding opportunities for the City of Lawrence's Mayor's Health Task Force and write grants to support and expand efforts to promote a healthy community in Lawrence. Focus areas include health equity, social determinants of health, brownfield assessment / cleanup and lead abatement. Research funding opportunities for the City of Lawrence's Mayor's Health Task Force and write grants to support and expand efforts to promote a healthy community in Lawrence. Focus areas include health equity, social determinants of health, brownfield assessment / cleanup and lead abatement.



Making Opportunity Count

• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Environmental Manager

  • 2009 - Feb 2015

  - Project management, grant writing, collaborative problem solving, workgroup coordination, community outreach, workshop creation and presentation. - Created new collaborative opportunities to expand the environmental focus of MOC. - $120,000 awarded from EPA for work focused on green infrastructure for stormwater management. - $ 45,000 awarded from the Toxics Use Reduction Institute to design and conduct workshops on green cleaning; awarded TURA 25th Anniversary Honorable Mention - Led two multi-stakeholder workgroups as part of a Robert Wood Johnson Healthy Kids Healthy Communities (HKHC) grant - Envisioned and led a multi-stakeholder team in a multi-year effort to turn a large green space in a Housing Authority complex into a high quality active living space: designed and installed a butterfly garden for children and obtained a $15,000 CDBG grant to create a natural play space for children. Show less



Clark University

• Worcester, MA

• Environmental Justice Research Assistant

  • Feb 2006 - Feb 2007

  Collaborated with National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) environmental justice project partners on several initiatives including: - the design and implementation of health listening sessions among minority populations - the research and design of an indoor environmental assessment protocol - creation of a resource booklet on indoor environmental pollutant standards Collaborated with National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) environmental justice project partners on several initiatives including: - the design and implementation of health listening sessions among minority populations - the research and design of an indoor environmental assessment protocol - creation of a resource booklet on indoor environmental pollutant standards



St. Bonaventure University

• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Campus Sustainability/Environmental Justice Coordinator

  • Sep 2001 - Jun 2005

  Established a comprehensive campus environmental justice and sustainability program: - Initiated a campus-wide recycling program - Organized a successful Move-Out solid waste reuse campaign that collected and donated 2,000 pounds of clothes, over 1,000 pounds of food and truckloads of furniture and household items in its first year - Initiated a Farm to School collaboration with the dining hall as well as "student shares"​ at a local CSA - Collaborated with Concerned Citizens of Cattaraugus County on a local landfill issue - Adjunct faculty, "Agriculture and the Environment" senior capstone class (2002-2003) Show less



Sanofi

• France
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Research Assistant

  • 1993 - 1998

  Major research focused on cystic fibrosis gene therapy. Major research focused on cystic fibrosis gene therapy.



Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology

• Shrewsbury, MA

• Research Assistant

  • 1991 - 1993

  Major research focused on characterization of sea urchin sperm membrane proteins. Major research focused on characterization of sea urchin sperm membrane proteins.