Experience

New Orleans Police Department

• United States
• Law Enforcement
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Compliance Manager

  • Nov 2016 - Present

• Performance Auditor

  • Sep 2015 - Nov 2016



Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation

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

• Food Program Coordinator

  • Aug 2015 - Sep 2015

  Recruit and support food security and local food entrepreneurs. Organize food sector convenings. Address policy barriers to tackling food security and local food issues. Track the impact of the entrepreneurs that come through our incubator. Also working with the Kellogg Foundation, the Louisiana Public Health Institute, and the Healthy School Food Collaborative to study how to get kids to eat more healthy food while in school.



NetWork Voluntours

• United States

• Project Manager

  • Mar 2015 - Aug 2015

  Leading multiple projects, including: corporate social responsibility consulting, transportation partnership development, client management and planning. Played a lead role in planning the Mayor of New Orleans' day of service to commemorate Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2015.



Cowen Institute at Tulane University

• Policy Manager

  • Aug 2011 - Feb 2015

  The Cowen Institute informs and advances solutions to eliminate the challenges impeding the success of PK-12 education in New Orleans. At the Cowen Institute, I use data to tell compelling stories that help people make better decisions for youth.



Shepherd Advisors

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services

• Project Associate

  • May 2011 - Sep 2011

  We do clean tech management consulting and market research, economic gardening consulting, energy policy implementation, and sustainability strategy consulting.



The Great Lakes Wind Collaborative

• Student Consultant

  • Jan 2010 - Apr 2011

  Working on policy recommendations to facilitate transmission infrastructure upgrades to deliver offshore wind power from the Great Lakes.



Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute

• Energy Analyst

  • Sep 2010 - Jan 2011

  I worked with the Graham Institute and the University of Michigan to create and action plan for the University to reduce its energy consumption.



Congressional Research Service

• United States
• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Natural Resources Policy Analyst

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

  As an intern at the Congressional Research Service I wrote a report on the current and impending impacts of climate change on the temperate forests of the U.S. and the available adaptation forest management strategies to improve the desirability of those impacts. In addition, I worked on forestry policy memos per request of congressional staffers and members.



Ecology Center - Ann Arbor

• HealthyStuff.org Intern - Testing and Research

  • Sep 2009 - Apr 2010

  HealthyStuff.org is a consumer safety website. I test common household products for potentially dangers chemicals and provide information about what we do and do not know about such chemicals.



Emergent Energy Group

• Renewables & Environment

• Sales Associate

  • Nov 2008 - Aug 2009

  I helped an alternative energy consulting and development firm find potential clients.



Tenacity

• Information Technology & Services

• Literacy Coach

  • Sep 2008 - Jun 2009

• Americorps Member-Literacy Coach

  • Dec 2007 - Aug 2008



Boston Pedicab

• United States
• Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Driver

  • 2008 - 2009

  Sell rides, don't be lazy, stay positive and professional.



Food & Water Watch

• United States
• Public Policy
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Sustainable Fish Technologies Intern

  • Feb 2008 - Mar 2008

  • Found paragons of sustainable aquaculture technologies that the non-profit consumer advocacy group FoodandWaterWatch.org, could use as sustainable examples for the fish-farming industry. http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/• Achievements: one example I found is Virginia Cobia Farms who are solving the seafood industry's safety problems with a clean, secure, traceable U.S. protein food supply that has absolutely zero environmental impact. FoodandWaterWatch.org is now using this as a sustainable example to the industry. http://www.virginiacobiafarms.biz/VirginiaCobiaFarms/



Global Green New Orleans

• Biodiesel Intern

  • Jan 2008 - Mar 2008

  • Conducted research for Global Green with the City of New Orleans to determine feasibility of biodiesel use by the privatized transit authority RTA. Global Green is a national environmental organization with a focus on climate change, WMDs, and drinking water. http://www.globalgreen.org/• Achievements: As a result of our research The New Orleans RTA is now committed to using 5% Bio-diesel and plans to switch to yellow grease within the next two years. • Developed executive summaries on the benefits of Bio-diesel for city representatives to help prepare them for meetings with privatized bus companies.



The Alliance for Affordable Energy

• Project Director

  • Jun 2006 - Dec 2006

  • Helped launch Bio-diesel promotional project: developed mission goals/objectives and timelines for deliverables. Duties included; drafted website postings, generating donations of Bio-diesel equipment and yellow grease, coordinating the efforts of board members, volunteers, and educators. Also organized community tutorials and project conference calls. • Achievements: Selected to present the benefits of Bio-Diesel to New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, and representatives of the U.S. Navy at The Alternative Fuels Conference: Clean Cities Initiative ‘06, New Orleans.



Tulane Environmental Law Clinic

• Intern

  • Jan 2006 - Apr 2006

  • Conducted first-hand research for an environmental justice case concerning distribution of federal funds by Louisiana state officials for sanitary services. Duties included conducting research via telephone, collecting sewerage maps from municipalities, studying ethnographic maps and LDEQ GIS maps, attending Law Clinic meetings and colloquiums, wrote grants. • Achievements – found significance using excel in comparison of ethnographies and sewerage where African-American population seem to have been neglected by state funded sewerage development.