Experience

Foundation for Louisiana

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

• Louisiana Against False Solutions Coalition Coordinator

  • May 2022 - Present

  I am the False Solutions Network Coordinator for multiple environmental, climate, and energy justice organizations in Louisiana to help organize a campaign to stop Carbon Capture, Storage, Utilization, and Sequestration. This is a false solution and will continue to endanger communities of color who are already overburdened with environmental injustice and racism by the oil and gas industries. I am the False Solutions Network Coordinator for multiple environmental, climate, and energy justice organizations in Louisiana to help organize a campaign to stop Carbon Capture, Storage, Utilization, and Sequestration. This is a false solution and will continue to endanger communities of color who are already overburdened with environmental injustice and racism by the oil and gas industries.



University of Vermont Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Environmental Justice Doctoral Student

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  The Rubenstein School offers a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Natural Resources. As a multi-disciplinary academic unit, the School strives to integrate disparate disciplines to enhance knowledge and develop solutions to an array of environmental issues. Faculty expertise includes forestry, wildlife biology, recreation management, aquatic sciences, watershed management, environmental sciences, environmental philosophy, justice, sociology, policy, planning, economics, and conflict resolution. The Rubenstein School offers a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Natural Resources. As a multi-disciplinary academic unit, the School strives to integrate disparate disciplines to enhance knowledge and develop solutions to an array of environmental issues. Faculty expertise includes forestry, wildlife biology, recreation management, aquatic sciences, watershed management, environmental sciences, environmental philosophy, justice, sociology, policy, planning, economics, and conflict resolution.


The Nature Conservancy
• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee
• Board Member

  • Apr 2022 - Present


Capstone Community Action, Inc.

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Food Security Specialist & Outreach Organizer, Community Economic Development Team

  • Jan 2020 - Jan 2023

  Capstone Community Action is dedicated to creating resilient households and communities and to advancing justice in social, economic and environmental policy. We empower individuals with the tools and resources to move beyond poverty. Through advocacy and community collaboration, we champion positive social change. We guide people to have a voice in their own transformation and promote a vision of what is possible. Capstone Community Action is dedicated to creating resilient households and communities and to advancing justice in social, economic and environmental policy. We empower individuals with the tools and resources to move beyond poverty. Through advocacy and community collaboration, we champion positive social change. We guide people to have a voice in their own transformation and promote a vision of what is possible.



Camp Meade

• United States
• Restaurants

• Social Justice Event Organizer

  • May 2020 - Apr 2022

  Camp Meade presently is a nexus of creative excellence in the food provider and artistic community worlds. Our current businesses work hard to embody these values. Our desire is to continue on that path by inviting other food makers, artists, and artisans who match our vision to join us at Camp Meade as we grow. The Green at Camp Meade will become a gathering place for events and social congress of all kinds. In this day and age of electronic and virtual connection, we need to have places that bring us all together as friends and neighbors in the age-old traditions of Town Meetings. The importance of the communal lunch or dinner at Town Meeting cannot be underestimated. Show less



University of Michigan

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Instructor

  • 2018 - Aug 2019

  I am teaching the "Introduction to Environmental Justice" course with Dr. Dorceta Taylor in the fall of 2018. I am teaching the "Introduction to Environmental Justice" course with Dr. Dorceta Taylor in the fall of 2018.



University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Graduate Student Research Assistant

  • Sep 2017 - Feb 2019

  I am the Graduate Student Staff Assistant for the Diversity, Inclusion, Justice and Equity (dije) initiative at the School of Education. This position aligns with my previous organizing in Educational Justice and Unions in Schools In New Orleans and my ongoing anti-racist organizing work. I work in Higher Education supporting Undergraduates, Masters and Phd Students as well as faculty and staff in our dije work. I am the Graduate Student Staff Assistant for the Diversity, Inclusion, Justice and Equity (dije) initiative at the School of Education. This position aligns with my previous organizing in Educational Justice and Unions in Schools In New Orleans and my ongoing anti-racist organizing work. I work in Higher Education supporting Undergraduates, Masters and Phd Students as well as faculty and staff in our dije work.



Gulf Restoration Network

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and GIS Researcher

  • May 2018 - Dec 2018

  Healthy Gulf is committed to uniting and empowering people to protect and restore the natural resources of the Gulf Region. The Gulf of Mexico will continue to be a natural, economic and recreational resource that is central to the culture and heritage of five states and several nations. The people of the region will be stewards of this vital but imperiled treasure, and assume the responsibility of returning the Gulf to its former splendor. Healthy Gulf is committed to uniting and empowering people to protect and restore the natural resources of the Gulf Region. The Gulf of Mexico will continue to be a natural, economic and recreational resource that is central to the culture and heritage of five states and several nations. The people of the region will be stewards of this vital but imperiled treasure, and assume the responsibility of returning the Gulf to its former splendor.



Golden Hour Landscaping

• Co-Founder

  • Jan 2016 - Apr 2018

  Sustainable, women-powered landscaping with attention to rain garden installation in an effort to counter flooding in New Orleans. We support women and native New Orleanians through our socially just work. Sustainable, women-powered landscaping with attention to rain garden installation in an effort to counter flooding in New Orleans. We support women and native New Orleanians through our socially just work.



Edible Schoolyard New Orleans, Langston Hughes Academy

• Lead Garden Educator

  • Jul 2014 - Jul 2016

  Teaching over 500 students a week at Langston Hughes Academy, I design and plan lessons for K-4 and teach K-8 grades outside in a one acre garden fully integrated into students academic and experiential education. ESYNOLA works to empower generations of New Orleans children to build and maintain healthy relationships with food, the natural world, themselves and their community. ESYNOLA involves students and the school community in growing, harvesting, preparing and enjoying food together as a means of awakening their senses, cultivating an environment that promotes a sense of pride and responsibility for our land and natural resources, and developing a love of fresh, seasonal foods. Show less



The Evanston Ecology Center

• Environmental Instructor

  • Aug 2013 - Jun 2014

  Design and implement environmental curriculum for the community, public schools and youth of Evanston. Design and implement environmental curriculum for the community, public schools and youth of Evanston.



Oberlin Early Childhood Center

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Garden Teacher

  • Feb 2010 - May 2013

  Taught and designed lesson plans, ran fundraising campaigns and implemented a new food and garden curriculum. Taught and designed lesson plans, ran fundraising campaigns and implemented a new food and garden curriculum.



Edible Schoolyard Berkeley

• Intern

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Summer caretaker for a one acre garden, working with at risk youth and summer camps of middle school children. Summer caretaker for a one acre garden, working with at risk youth and summer camps of middle school children.


Rivers Bend Design
• United States
• Landscaper

  • Jan 2008 - Jan 2012


Edible Schoolyard New Orleans

• Intern

  • Jan 2010 - Feb 2010

  Assistant for all parts of the program, kitchen, garden and outreach. Assistant for all parts of the program, kitchen, garden and outreach.