What do I do for work?
Special projects including serving as a career education liaison for Sierra College, Tahoe-Truckee

EXPERIENCE
CONSULTANT, 2008-Present
Writing and Communications

DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION
Tahoe Maritime Museum, Homewood, CA , 2007 – 2009           
Managed education programs and led marketing work leading up to and including first year of operations in new facility.
 
PROGRAM EVALUATION SPECIALIST
San Francisco, CA , 2001 – 2008           
Applied qualitative research skills to environmental education programs, and established evaluation guidelines for dozens of programs.
Reported concrete results and action steps for more than 20 organizations including National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, Save The Bay and Stopwaste.org.
 
COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE
CBA Partners, Stamford, CT, 1999 – 2000                       
Led media and investor relations for high yield investment fund. Secured placements in The New York Times and Commercial Property News.
 
ASSISTANT
Private Client Services, Morgan Stanley, New York, NY, 1996 – 1998           
Worked with senior management to evaluate and revise discretionary account management practices for 250 investment representatives.

EDUCATION
Stanford Graduate School of Education
MA, Social Sciences

Vanderbilt University
BA, English and Spanish

PRESENTATIONS + PUBLICATIONS

• 150+ published lifestyle articles in various publications including edible Reno Tahoe, Tahoe Quarterly and The Tahoe Weekly
• Measuring Results published by The Pollinators Network
• Restoring Americas Estuaries Annual Conference. Co-­presented findings from national pilot survey, "Volunteers’ stewardship ethic in community based coastal restoration projects" (2006)
• Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (AEOE) workshops. Influencing Behavior and Embark, Enlighten, and Educate through Poetry (2004). Co-led inquiry-­based workshop encouraging discovery and inquiry through observation (2003)
• Lawns and the Environment Conference panel speaker. Effective Public Education Programming: Behavior Change and Evaluation Strategies (2004)
• North American Association of Environmental Education (NAAEE) presentation. Presented Yosemite National Institutes Case Study and co-­facilitated an interactive two‐day course Environmental Education Learning Institute for Non-­Formal Educators (2003)