Experience

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  Charity & Security Network

  • United States

  • Managing Director, Charity & Security Network

    • Jan 2024 - Present
    • United States

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  Charity and Security Network

  • Director, Charity and Security Network

    • Sep 2020 - Dec 2023

    The Charity & Security Network is a resource center for nonprofit organizations to promote and protect their ability to carry out effective programs that promote peace and human rights, aid civilians in areas of disaster and armed conflict and build democratic governance.Launched in late 2008, the Charity & Security Network is made up of a broad cross-section of nonprofits, including charities working on humanitarian aid, development, peacebuilding, human rights and civil liberties, along with grantmakers, donors and faith-based groups.

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  Self-employed

  • Independent Consultant

    • Jul 2020 - Sep 2020

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  Wiki Education

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Director, Institutional Funding

    • Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
    • San Francisco Bay Area

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  Self

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Consultant, Philanthropic Analysis, Organizational Strategy, Partnership Development, Impact

    • Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
    • San Francisco Bay Area

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  N_Square: The Crossroads for Nuclear Security Innovation

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Director, Nuclear Security Partnerships, N Square, The Crossroads for Nuclear Security Innovation

    • Aug 2016 - Jul 2019
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    I work to find connections among and between people and organizations that seek to reduce and eliminate the threats from nuclear weapons and materials. After 17 years supporting grants an strategy, I am now working to identify and cultivate creative, innovative and potentially effective new ways to tackle these threats.

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  Ploughshares Fund

  • Program Director

    • Jun 2000 - Jun 2017

    Direct all grant making and strategy for our annual $5.5 million grant portfolio focused on international security and arms control.

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  US EPA

  • Environmental Protection Specialist

    • Sep 1996 - Jan 2000

    Air permit oversight; NEPA review; a variety of other environmental regulation roles in the Region 9 office of EPA.

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  U.S. Department of Energy

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Program Analyst

    • Sep 1994 - Jun 1996
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    • Communicated mission and persuaded Congress of the need for DOE’s Environmental Management program $6 billion annual investments in waste management and clean-up.• Co-authored the Department’s first full public accounting of the environmental consequences of nuclear weapons production, “Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom”; managed contractors for printing and dissemination of 100,000 copies to target audiences nationwide.• Built support for DOE’s EM program through persuasive communications to various audiences and public officials.

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  Office of Technology Assessment

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Research Analyst

    • 1992 - 1994
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Co-authored a Congressionally mandated report on the options for disposing of nuclear materials; managed contractors who contributed to the report; assisted with the preparation of other reports produced within the environment program at OTA. Assisted with short-term research papers for Congress on advanced nuclear reactor options, nuclear materials management, and related issues.