Experience

The Watershed Institute

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Outreach Specialist

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  In this role, I have three main responsibilities: (1) Administering grants, (2) Coordinating events and outreach, and (3) advancing justice, equity, diversity, & inclusion internally/externally(1) Administering re-grants to smaller non-profit organizations for watershed conservation projects that aim to provide water quality science & education, green infrastructure education & advocacy, stormwater advocacy, and/or climate resiliency to communities. (2) Coordinating efforts, events, adult educational programming & related communications across the state of NJ between different environmental non-profit organizations, communities, and other local groups. Organizing webinars, workshops, an annual watershed conference, community advocacy training, newsletters, and roundtable discussions on different topics such as watershed protection, conservation, environmental justice, and more. Maintaining online resources on grants, capacity building, and an environmental jobs board. Building partnerships with other environmental and community groups.(3) advancing the organization's commitment to justice, equity, diversity, & inclusion by coordinating outreach and collaboration in overburdened communities. Participating in collaborative efforts across the field such as the Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed DEIJ workgroup. Organizing internal training and resources for staff.In my time at The Watershed Institute, I have also helped write grant requests, mentored young professionals, and supervised a summer internship project on stormwater impacts to overburdened, primarily Spanish-speaking, neighborhoods.



FEMA

• France
• Internet

• Environmental Protection Specialist

  • Dec 2018 - Oct 2019

  Deployed to DR-4339-PR. Assisted the Energy Sector at the San Juan, JRO. Completed hundreds of environmental compliance reviews and several site inspections across the island. Deployed to DR-4339-PR. Assisted the Energy Sector at the San Juan, JRO. Completed hundreds of environmental compliance reviews and several site inspections across the island.



AmeriCorps NCCC

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• FEMA Corps Member

  • Feb 2018 - Nov 2018

  As a FEMA Corps member for AmeriCorps NCCC, I served with the Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation (EHP) and Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) cadre of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Using my knowledge and experience in environmental policy and sustainability, I helped ensure communities and organizations were compliant with federal, state and local environmental and historic preservation laws so that their FEMA-funded projects were not jeopardized in the future. With the DSA cadre, I responded during the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in the Fall of 2018. Together with a team of specialists, my team and I helped thousands of residents in the Donalsonville, Georgia area get registered for individual disaster assistance and housing assistance.Through the Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation cadre (EHP), I gained skills in GIS, administration, compliance reviews, technical writing and have gained a deeper understanding of environmental/historic preservation laws like NEPA, NHPA, ESA, EO 12898 and EO 11988. Meanwhile, with DSA, I was able to refine my customer service skills and experienced on the ground, door-to-door canvasing. The program also gave me the opportunity to shadow and work with other cadres like Hazard Mitigation, Public Assistance and Individual Assistance. As part of NCCC requirements, I also gained experience in recruiting, environmental education, volunteer engagement and developing and presenting power point presentations. I wrote and designed three 25-paged project portfolios to detail my team's time and experience throughout the 10-month long program.



Amazon

• Bangladesh
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Amazon Seasonal Sortation Associate

  • Nov 2017 - Jan 2018

  Worked in Amazon sortation warehouse in Avenel, NJ during 2017 Amazon Peak Season. Scanned about 200 – 300 packages per scanning shifts for shipment outbound from warehouse. Main responsibilities included participating in wrap-down shift (which included stacking packages on pallets, wrapping pallets, printing and attaching correct shipment information to pallets and pulling pallets off sortation floor to outbound area) Helped in inbound section by unloading trucks, problem solve section by intercepting damaged packages and re-wrapping for proper shipping and jiffy sortation.