Outreach and Training Experience
Chick-rearing Specialist/ Research Assistant I
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Mariana Crow Recovery Project
To increase the quality of training and streamline the training process, I created a training website for the Mariana Crow Recovery Project Team that hand-rears the Aga chicks. The goal of this website was to assist new staff, interns and volunteers adjust to Rota and their new work of rearing Aga chicks. Just as importantly, this website was made to increase the quality of training and reduce mistakes in the chick-rearing process. Additionally, I drafted protocols for this team and assisted other team members in doing the same, to ensure this quality of training continued past my scope of employment.
To support the community and increase community involvement of Mariana Crow conservation, I helped host tours and activity days of half the elementary students on island at the chick rearing facility. I also participated at community outreach events, such as island-wide festivals.
Animal Care Coordinator
Pacific Rim Conservation
Staring in 2018 I also acted as the Outreach Coordinator for Pacific Rim Conservation. This included recruiting, training and scheduling all our volunteers (over 90 by 2020). This aspect of my work also included creating a translocation “class curriculum” for the students I visited at schools and “field-site curriculum” for groups that visited the translocation site. After this creation, I contacted, scheduled and hosted over 60 school, community or organizational groups at the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge. This included hosting the first ever “Open House” tours of the translocation site and at the refuge.
In 2019 I initiated PRC’s first intern program. This included interviewing, hiring, orienting, training and providing continuing educational opportunities for our interns. This also led to me creating a resource and training website for new staff, interns and volunteers. Our first intern year ended with a resounding success and the program continued until the end of the translocation program in 2022.