WRITING EXPERIENCE

• Self-published chapbooks including "waking up from a dream in which i can not see" (2018) and "lille venn" (2017)

• Published poem "Not Change" in Z Publishing's Best Emerging Poets of California (2017)

• Co-editor of Words of the Watershed Undergraduate Journal of Environmental Art (2016-2017)

• Co-editor of Berkeley Poetry Review (2016)

• Member of CalSlam (2016-2018)

• Published poems "Haghigat//God//I", "a couple of things i learned from a tree", and "Perceptions" in Words of the Watershed (2016)

• Notetaker, UC Berkeley’s Disabled Students Program (2015 - 2018)

• Received Scholastic Writing Awards for the following poems: "What's in a Body?" (Regional Gold Key, 2014), "Yes No, Maybe?" (Regional Gold Key & National Silver Key, 2013) "Genesis" (Regional Silver Key, 2013), "A Letter to the Storm" (Regional Silver Key, 2013), "Stimulate" (Regional Honorable Mention, 2013), “Spelling Out Sorrow” (Regional Gold Key, 2012), “Retard” (Regional Silver Key, 2012)

 

MUSIC EXPERIENCE

• Record, mix and produce solo and collaborative tracks (2014-present)

• Member of experimental vocal trio, Church (other members: Allison Sabrie & Althea Bainne-siMierre), hosting and performing DIY shows at Yarrow Springs Farm (Floyd, VA 2021)

• Tenor vocalist, The Queer Choir (Berkeley, CA 2019-2020)

• Vocal guest feature, The Haugenes Project (Jersey Shore region, NJ 2014-2021)

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AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE

• Glynwood Farm, Vegetable Production Apprentice (Cold Spring, NY 2022)         

• Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary Farm, Beekeeping Apprentice (Floyd, VA 2021)

• Oakland Unified School District, STIP Substitute (Oakland, CA 2019-2020)

• Oakland Unified School District, Gardener (Oakland, CA 2020)

• FoodCorps, Garden Teacher (Oakland, CA 2020-2021)

• Happy Boy Farm, Farmers Market Associate (Oakland, CA 2020-2021)

• Bread SRSLY, Farmers Market Associate (Berkeley, CA 2019-2021)

• UC Botanical Garden, Camp Counselor (Berkeley, CA  2019)

• Independent Contract Gardener, individual clients  (2018 - 2021)

• Berkeley Horticultural Nursery, Sales Associate (Berkeley, CA 2019)

• Sustainable Campus Landscape & Ecological Design, Course Facilitator (UC Berkeley  2018 - 2019​)

• Cal Dining Sustainability, Garden Coordinator (Berkeley, CA  2016-2019)

• Malcolm X Elementary School, Volunteer Garden Educator (Berkeley, CA 2018-2019)

• Bay Area Scientists in Schools, Volunteer Science Educator (Berkeley, CA 2018)

• Conservation & Resource Studies Major, Peer Mentor (Berkeley, CA  2017)

• ​Monmouth County Park System, Naturalist & Outdoor Educator (Monmouth County, NJ  2016-2017)

• Unidad Basico de Produccion Cooperativa Alamar, ‘Agroecological Management of Horticultural Systems’ Intern, (Alamar, Cuba  2017)

• GRID Alternatives, Volunteer Coordinator Intern/ Solar Spring Break Team member (Oakland, CA 2016)

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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Campus Lead Researcher, Real Food Challenge (Berkeley, CA  2017-2018)

• Assistant Researcher to Emily Kearney PhD, Kremen Lab (Berkeley, CA  2017)

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MUTUAL AID/LEGAL AID EXPERIENCE

• Hotline Representative, San Francisco National Lawyers Guild (San Francisco, CA 2020-2021​)

• Volunteer, West Oakland Punks with Lunch (Oakland, CA 2019 - 2020​)

• Communications Intern, Garden State Equality (Asbury Park, NJ 2018)

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EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley 

Bachelor of Science in Conservation and Resource Studies

Concentration: Socioecology Minors: Global Poverty & Practice; Spanish Language & Literature

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AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

• UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability, Sustainability Award (2019)

• College of Natural Resources Honors Thesis, and High Distinction (2019)

• The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) ‘Brown’s Cafe Herbal Garden’ Grant of $13,717 (2018)

• Blum Center for Developing Economies Global Poverty & Practice Fellowship (2017)

• State Seal of Biliteracy (Spanish and English), State of New Jersey (2015)