CV

Values

  • Collaboration and consent-based decision making

  • An approach to social and environmental issues as deeply intertwined

  • Equity, anti-oppression, anti-racism

  • Active and judgement-free listening

  • Learning from those with lived experience of oppression and marginalization

Skillset Breakdown

  • Writing: blogs, essays, articles, web copy, newsletters, email campaigns

  • Program development and management

  • Teaching, facilitation, and student mentorship

  • Critical thinking and analysis

  • Illustration and painting

  • Non profit management

  • Experience working in collaboration with people with lived experience of oppression and marginalization

  • Digital tools and software: Google Suite, Microsoft 365, Notion

  • Languages: English, Spanish, Italian (some French and Slovak)

  • Comprehensive knowledge of:

    • the human dimensions of sustainability

    • feminist theory

    • food security

    • decolonization

    • anti-opression & anti-racism

    • sustainable design for landscapes and social structures

Freelance Workshop Presenter

  • Workshop design and facilitation (2019 - Present)

Work Experience & Projects

FIND AN INDEPENDENT MINING EXPERT (2023-present)

  • Operational Manager

  • Roles: first operational manager of an international collaborative project, which invoilves the creation, promotion, and expansion of a database of technical experts who can be contracted to suppport mining-affected communities worldwide; liaison between several international public service organizations; responsible for supporting successful collaborative co-management and resporting to management and advisory commitees that include public service organization representatives, Indigenous advisors and technical experts; database management; resposible for growth and promotion of the database; responsible for all fundraising for project

RHIZOME ECO-SOCIAL EDUCATION SOCIETY, Kelowna, BC (2020-present)

  • Co-founder & Co-Director

  • Roles: co-founder and core team member of Rhizome Eco-Social Education Society, a collaborative organization with a mission to empower individuals and communities by creating inclusive and accessible ecological education programs and demonstration projects.

OKANAGAN FRUIT TREE PROJECT, Kelowna, BC (2020-present)

  • Program Manager (consultant)

  • Roles: supervising a team of seasonal harvest coordinators, managing OFTP’s community farming, produce rescue, and collaborative harvest programs, Notion database management, forming and maintaining relationships with community partners, communications/social media, grant writing, helping to develop new community programs and redesign existing ones as needed

PERMACULTURE WOMEN'S GUILD (2017 - Present)

CENTRAL OKANAGAN FOUNDATION, Kelowna, BC (2019-2020)

  • Point In Time Count Coordinator (consultant)

  • Roles: implementation of a city-wide effort (Kelowna) to enumerate the number of people experiencing homelessness while collecting data about service needs, community outreach, data management & analysis, volunteer recruitment, management, and training, reporting to federal & provincial government & local community

THE START FRESH PROJECT, Kelowna, BC (2017 - 2019)

  • Project Coordinator, Curriculum Developer, Grant Writer for the Culinary Arts and Farm Education Program

  • Roles: program research, development, and coordination; grant writer; program outreach coordination

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, Kelowna BC (2018 - 2019):

  • Research and Event Coordinator for an inter-disciplinary project assessing gaps in services for temporary agricultural workers in BC

  • Roles: data coding & analysis, event coordination

BC GREEN PARTY (PETE FRY), Vancouver, BC (2015-16)

  • Volunteer Coordinator/Assistant to Campaign Manager (consultant) for Vancouver Mount Pleasant By-Election candidate Pete Fry

  • Roles: campaign research, volunteer recruitment and coordination, volunteer database maintenance and updates

MANY RIVERS PERMACULTURE (2014)

  • Researcher and Community Building Coordinator (consultant)

  • Roles: community asset map creator, social permaculture workshop presenter, blog contributor

RESEARCH AND DEGROWTH, Barcelona, Spain (2014)

  • Facilitator, Administrator, Illustrator (consultant)

  • Roles: research and administrative support, preparation of course documents and materials, student activity facilitation

TEACHING (LANGUAGES), Various Locations (2006 - 2012)

  • Language Teacher and Tutor of English, Spanish, and Italian

  • Roles: worked with private clients, and study groups (including Universidad de Sevilla professors and University of British Columbia athletic teams), and taught in language schools in Vancouver, BC (ECE English) and Seville, Spain (Notting Hill School of English).

Formal Education

RECONCILIATION THROUGH INDIGENOUS EDUCATION, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Education, Online Credited Course, Jan - Feb 2017

MSC IN HUMAN ECOLOGY: CULTURE, POWER AND SUSTAINABILITY, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 2015

SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEGROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, ICTA (UAB - Autonomous University of Barcelona) and Research & Degrowth, Barcelona, Spain, 2014

BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH HONOURS IN ROMANCE STUDIES, Minor in Conservation Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 2010

Other Certificates & Education

BACK TO BELONGING - ANCESTORS AND ALLYSHIP WORKSHOP, Heart to Heart Indigenous Relations Consultation, 2022

DECOLONIZE FIRST WORKSHOP, Nahanee Creative, online, 2021

POINT IN TIME COUNT COORDINATOR TRAINING, ESDC (Economic and Social Development Canada), Calgary, BC, 2019

TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE WORKSHOP, Canadian Mental Health Association, Kelowna, BC, 2019

NON PROFIT BOARD GOVERNANCE TRAINING, Deb McLelland, Kelowna, BC, 2018

DECOLONIZE YOURSELF CREATIVE IMMERSION COURSE, Heather Jo Flores, online, 2018

PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE AND NATURAL BUILDING COURSE, Permaculture Eden, Lourdoueix St. Michel, France, 2015

TESOL CERTIFICATE, TEFL International, Seville, Spain, 2006

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