Experience

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  First Nations Health Authority

  • Canada
  • Hospitals and Health Care
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Director

    • Jan 2024 - Present

  • Manager

    • Jun 2023 - Feb 2024

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  School of Dandu

  • Guinea Bissau, West Africa

  • Co-founder

    • Mar 2014 - Present
    • Guinea Bissau, West Africa

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  Kwantlen Polytechnic University

  • Grant Writer | Senior Research Associate

    • Aug 2016 - Jun 2023

    · Lead various community health and community development projects for the ISFS. Role includes collaborative work with a multidisciplinary team. Bring expertise in project conceptualization, project management, data collection and analysis, partnership development, knowledge mobilization, program evaluation, supervising junior research staff and students, and advising senior management, stakeholders, and community partners. · Lead relationship building and project development with Indigenous communities around Food Sovereignty. This role includes grant writing, community engagement, project conception and management, and capacity building.· Support senior management in organizational development, fund raising, hiring, and strategic planning.· Manage program financials including identifying funding sources, applying for grants and other funding, managing annual project budgets, and monitoring completion of deliverables and authorizing payments. Develop and execute contracts with collaborators and contractors. · Partner and lead collaboration with stakeholders in BC including researchers, extension personnel, government staff, and private sector actors to assess needs and develop and design research and programming. · Spearheaded the development of a Graduate certificate program followed by teaching the graduate level Food Systems and Society course.

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  Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

  • Boston, Ma

  • Adjucnt Instructor

    • Sep 2014 - Jun 2023
    • Boston, Ma

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  International Partnership for Human Development (IPHD)

  • DC and Guinea Bissau

  • Independant Evaluator

    • May 2015 - Jul 2015
    • DC and Guinea Bissau

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  UNICEF India

  • New Delhi Area, India

  • Consulting Project Manager

    • Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
    • New Delhi Area, India

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  Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University

  • Guinea-Bissau and Boston

  • Post Doctoral Scholar

    • Nov 2012 - May 2014
    • Guinea-Bissau and Boston

    Some of my responsibilities in this role were sensitizing the communities, training and managing the local staff, developing data collection instruments, form liaisons with the local Ministry of Health and Education and create opportunities for capacity building, supervise data collection and supplement distribution, onsite quality assurance, data management, data analysis, generating USDA reports and scientific publications.

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  Rizvi college of Hotel Management

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Associate Professor

    • Nov 2005 - Jun 2006
    • Mumbai Area, India