Experience

Global Conservation Solutions

• United Kingdom
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Conservation Strategist

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Helping organizations define and achieve their conservation goals through the development of strategic plans with clear indicators to monitor progress. Specializing in the use of the Open Standards for Conservation. Remote and in-person consultation. Helping organizations define and achieve their conservation goals through the development of strategic plans with clear indicators to monitor progress. Specializing in the use of the Open Standards for Conservation. Remote and in-person consultation.



Boston College

• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Educator Environmental Studies (Assistant Professor)

  • Jul 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Mentoring and advising. Managed small group projects in 4 courses entailing regular meetings between group members at various stages to ensure smooth progression towards final deliverables.• Knowledge transfer. Designed iterative and reflective learning exercises for students to help enforce difficult concepts and identify areas where additional information was necessary. Encouraged the development of participants critical thinking skills through the incorporation of thought questions in lectures, partner and small group work.• Designed and delivered course content for 6 undergraduate courses as the instructor of record (Global environmental justice & conservation, Human wildlife conflict and coexistence, The human footprint: population, energy & agriculture, Environmental seminar (fourth year), and Environmental studies introductory seminar (second year). Show less

• Cultural Competence (Intercultural Development Inventory)

  • Jan 2022 - Apr 2022

  Cultural Competence Engagement Module, a six-session training session facilitating participants' knowledge, language, behavioral, and cultural skills necessary to navigate within a diverse and inclusive community provided by the Office for Institutional Diversity at Boston College. The course utilizes the Intercultural Development Inventory(IDI), an internationally recognized teaching module.

• Teaching and Learning Practice

  • Sep 2021 - Dec 2021

  Participated in a teaching and learning group reading and discussing Stephen Brookfield and Mary Hess "Becoming a White Antiracist" in the context of Higher Education, the classroom, and beyond. There were a total of 8 faculty that met bi-monthly over the course of the fall semester to discuss the book and enrich our teaching practice.



Interaction Institute for Social Change

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

• Facilitative Leadership for Social Change

  • Feb 2022 - Mar 2022

  • Participant in a seven-session training on facilitative leadership provided through my former receipt of a Switzer Environmental Leadership Award (2007). • Trainings included a combination of discussion and small group exercises providing a foundation of facilitation skills and concrete activities to support the design and implementation of participant's own practice. • Key activities included methods of seeking maximum appropriate involvement of stakeholders, creating a shared vision, facilitating agreement, designing excellent meetings, and collaborative planning. Show less



Darwin Initiative

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services

• Senior Social Scientist

  • Jul 2018 - Mar 2021

  • Co-investigator on a 2.5 year grant investigating the role of community-based forestry on human wellbeing and forest integrity (RESPeCT project - Realizing equitable, sustainable and profitable community-based forest management in Tanzania) • Led the design, collection and dissemination of all aspects of social science data • Conducted participant observations, focal group discussions, and household interviews in 14 villages (550 households). • Assisted in the provision of evidence demonstrating communities' ability to manage forests sustainably, serving the dual purpose of reducing biodiversity loss whilst providing a sustainable source of income for communities. • Designed monitoring and evaluation tools for gender equity trainings leading to 35% representation of women on local government committees and an increase of women stating that they feel able to express their opinions on committees. • Presented research results at the FLARE 2020 Twitter Conference (Forests & Livelihood: Assessment, Research and Engagement) Show less



Allegheny College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Educator Environmental Studies (Assistant Professor)

  • Jan 2018 - Aug 2020

  • Mentoring and advising. Served as a mentor and advisor for 3 mature female students returning to complete their undergraduate studies. Served as mentor and advisor for 3 additional students in the formation through completion of a senior thesis involving the preparation of a literature review as well as collection and analysis of primary data. • Awarded a community engagement grant (Fahrner Fund) to develop relationships with three community organizations where students could apply classroom-based learning to a real world setting. • Course development on Introduction to Environmental Studies, Environmental problem analysis, Research methods, Seminar in Sustainable Development, Senior seminar, and Environmental justice. Show less



University of East Anglia

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Educator Natural Resources & International Development (Lecturer)

  • Nov 2016 - Dec 2017

  • Instructor of record for two core modules on natural resource management for undergraduate students in the School of International Development.• Coordination of course faculty and oversight of course content to ensure appropriate coverage and assimilation in final exams.

• Senior Researcher Natural Resource Management

  • Feb 2009 - Dec 2017

  • I was involved in several research projects over the course of my time at the UEA DEV. The most significant included: 1. developing capacity to support the integration of environmental indicators into multidimensional poverty indicators in Rwanda (ESPA Impact Fund 2017-18), 2. a social assessment of forest degradation and charcoal production in Tanzania (People Postcode Lottery 2016), 3. a social assessment of community-based forest to human wellbeing in Tanzania (ESPA Early Career Fellowship 2014-16), 4. an investigation of conservation, market-based initiatives to achieve conservation, and local and global conceptions of justice in Bolivia, China and Tanzania (CMJ ESRC 2013-16), 5. and a payment for ecosystem services project in Rwanda (ReDirect EU FP7 2009-12)• Receipt of two awards recognizing my contribution to the University going above and beyond expectations (ReDirect project 2011) and a community engagement (joint award CMJ 2014) for my employment of innovative, participatory research methods.• Provision of 20+ professional and lay talks on research design through results, distilling difficult concepts and adjusting content based on audience-type (i.e. conservation organizations, government agencies, higher education, professional organizations).• Prepared 40+ publications summarizing research design and outcomes for a wide variety of audiences and platforms including scientific (peer-review) publications, donor reports, topical blogs, and policy briefs.• Global Environmental Justice Working group (member) - Creation of a MOOC on Environmental Justice (Future Learn) 'practical approaches to engaging with environmental justice - Co-organizer for one-day workshop of conservation practitioners and academics on environmental justice and conflict transformation. - Monthly meetings to discuss and coordinate group activities Show less



UCL

• South Korea
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Researcher in UCL Anthropology

  • Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

  Working in partnership with the non-profit, in situ organization, Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative. Led an evaluation of Community-Based Forest Management’s impact on human wellbeing in 8 villages (350 households) with attention to social differentiation, i.e. gender and leadership. Co-creation of knowledge through use of participatory video. Working in partnership with the non-profit, in situ organization, Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative. Led an evaluation of Community-Based Forest Management’s impact on human wellbeing in 8 villages (350 households) with attention to social differentiation, i.e. gender and leadership. Co-creation of knowledge through use of participatory video.



Acacia Natural Resource Consultants, Ltd.

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services

• Environmental Consultant

  • May 2013 - Apr 2014

  April 2014, Literature review of illegal logging and FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement in Malaysia for WWF. May 2013, Literature review of pro-poor benefits sharing mechanisms in REDD+ for the IUCN (jointly prepared with Tom Blomely). July 2013, Impact evaluation of The Forests Dialogue (http://tfd.yale.edu/) April 2014, Literature review of illegal logging and FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement in Malaysia for WWF. May 2013, Literature review of pro-poor benefits sharing mechanisms in REDD+ for the IUCN (jointly prepared with Tom Blomely). July 2013, Impact evaluation of The Forests Dialogue (http://tfd.yale.edu/)



Institute for International Conservation

• United Kingdom
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Jan 2001 - Aug 2004

  • Helped to establish a center focused on tropical research and conservation based out of Antioch University New England (graduate school). • Promotion of the new organization to AUNE and broader community members through the creation of digital and physical materials. • Creation of a quarterly newsletter and distribution to 300+ individuals and organizations. • Organization of a monthly lunch seminar involving internal and external guests and open to the public • Organization of first and third annual meetings showcasing tropical research and conservation in the New England area. The one-day workshop grew from 50 to over 100 individuals under my leadership. • Managed the development of a digital database of grants, internship and other opportunities in tropical conservation for AUNE students and faculty. • Coordination of website creation and in particular written content and images. Show less