Currently based in Ithaca, NY working in capacity building and digital engagement at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
An Intro
I’m a problem solver, coordinator, and designer of systems, processes, and communication materials and messages, often responsible for the “how” in addition to the “what” of our work.
I see my role in conservation and participatory science as a conduit. Sitting between folks who have information and those who could use that information can look like project management, marketing and outreach, educational material development, system or training development, volunteer coordination, or user experience design.
Past Experience
At the water resources/habitat program of Washington State University Extension and its nonprofit arm, Native Plant Salvage Foundation, I assisted in developing systems to help organize documentation, daylight inaccessible resources, work in project management tools as we diversified volunteer leadership, and grow the body of educational content on the website.
I’ve since overseen habitat restoration and rain garden installation events, scheduled and managed volunteers for our twice-annual plant sales and all other annual volunteer events, built a digital home to document institutional knowledge, designed a new website and plenty of social and marketing materials, assisted in digitization and video editing for an online course, collaborated in implementing field-based workshops to several regional ecosystems, and kickstarted our citizen science program with a BioBlitz on a local land trust property.
In addition to these mainstay tasks and events, I was an equal partner with my supervisor in the creation of a new regional Hedgerows Toolkit for Western Washington over the last two years. The toolkit includes a 78-page handbook, plant characteristics table, and custom hedgerow planting templates; I assisted with research, participated more heavily in editing and structure, and personally created original diagrams and illustrations for the handbook and templates.