Project Health

GWENDOLYN TAMMY KEITH

**** ****** **** **, ******, NC 27707 * 831-***-**** * **********@*****.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Gifted in providing coordination, effective communications, building rapport and relationships

and maintaining trust with institutional leadership in higher education, individuals, organizations,

departments, and outside clients. Able to create positive working teams with virtual project

collaborators.

• Proficient in working with people from diverse cultures and beliefs while meeting community

and organizational goals by integrating people’s strengths and creating synergistic programs.

• Experienced in managing and coordinating medium to large projects with multiple

collaborators across the nation and from multiple institutions and non-profit organizations;

coordinating communications, agendas and meetings; ensuring coordination between

collaborators; developing resources and written materials; ensuring accountability of follow-up

actions; editing and research for articles.

• Proven effectiveness working with leadership to raise foundation and federal grant funding,

implement grant funded projects, coordinate participants, ensure deliverables, monitor and provide

direction to improve projects, implement project tracking and grant reporting in non-profit

organizations and public universities.

• Experience with research protocol, qualitative data, and evaluation processes.

• Worked with policy in sustainability, public health and mental health parity.

EDUCATION

2000-2003 MASTER OF ARTS, Human Development – St. Mary's University, Minneapolis, MN

1983-1987 BACHELOR OF ARTS, Sociology & Anthropology – Carleton College, Northfield, MN

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Certified Therapeutic Life Coach®, Minneapolis, MN; Soquel, CA; Durham, NC

2000-PRESENT

2014- PRESENT Thought Leader Select, Medical CV Contractor, Durham, NC

2013-PRESENT Non-Profit Consultant and Virtual Client Communication Support, Wellstone-

Barlow Mental Health Initiative, and Lets Start Talking, St. Paul, MN

2012-PRESENT Wellness Coach and Tower Garden™ Virtual Franchise Owner, NSA Juice Plus

2007-2012 Assistant to the Director and Academic Coordinator for Education and Research,

Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, University of California

2011-2012 Foundation Grants Coordinator, Center for Grants and Contracts, Division of Social

Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

1998-2000 Program Coordinator, Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy, Minneapolis, MN

1988-1996 Program Organizer and State Coordinator, Land Stewardship Project and

Sustainable Farming Association, Lewiston, and Milaca, MN

1987-1988 Agro-Forestry Volunteer, U.S. Peace Corps, Solomon Islands, South Pacific

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

• OPERATING SYSTEMS: Mac and familiar with Windows

SOFTWARE: Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Numbers, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Quicken,

some experience with Adobe Illustrator and GoDaddy web builder.

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INTERNET PROGRAM PLANNING SYSTEMS: Celoxis, WebEx, Google, DropBox, University Cloud Systems

by CISCO

SOCIAL MEDIA: FaceBook; LinkedIn; and institutional list serves.

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND COLLABORATION BUILDING

• Built private coaching and healing practice, working with loss, grief, life change and trauma;

created websites, written and audio resources.

• Supported the director of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS),

an internationally acclaimed sustainability research center at the University of California, Santa

Cruz (UCSC), with all local and national research project coordination in social and public

health issues in food system arenas. Handled all project oversight, communications, agendas

and meetings with web based project management systems, databases, and spreadsheets.

Coordinated all meetings and travel for national and international speaking engagements, and

research meetings for the director of CASFS. Represented the director at meetings. Assisted

with web-based lectures for international conferences. Edited peer reviewed articles.

• Provided social science research assistance, including: grant writing and project plans; finding

subjects and interviewing human subjects on issues including farm and food labor inequities

along gender, race and immigration status, farm-to-institution, produce supply, attitudes and

perceptions, outcomes from education programs, food deserts; transcription, cataloging

qualitative data; editing articles; hiring and supervising graduate student researchers.

• Coordinated over 12 faculty researchers, setting up systems for web-based data-sharing and

institutional oversight for a National Science Foundation funded project at UCSC, University

of California, Davis (UCD), Pennsylvania State University, and NGO partners. The project

included interviews with human subjects and analysis of qualitative data on gender, race and

health issues for labor in the food system.

• Coordinated researchers from UCSC, UCD and several NGO’s for a USDA research project on

farm-to-institution and local food access. Handled logistics, communication systems;

organized small and large meetings and symposiums; coordinated assessments and advisory

board activities; procured resources, did invoicing, created and implemented public outreach.

• Organized four annual meetings in different states, and online renewal grant proposals for a

national USDA research group of university faculty on “Alternative Public Health Approaches

to Obesity, Diabetes and Access to Healthy Food for Underserved Populations.”

• Coordinated a book proposal on food systems and public health. Set up a virtual office,

collected submissions, and edited for faculty from UCSC, UCD, Texas A&M, Cornell

University, Michigan State University, Penn State University, Missouri State University,

Washington State University, Iowa State University, and University of Hawaii.

• Recruited, hired and supervised multi-racial, multi-disciplinary and multi-national graduate

student research assistants on projects around public health and food access; obesity and

diabetes; labor and equity in the food system.

GWENDOLYN TAMMY KEITH

• Helped connect UCSC faculty across various social science disciplines to develop cross-

disciplinary projects in food systems and health, and raise collaborative money for research to

address needs of underserved populations.

• Enrolled Federal Agencies in agreeing to fund and participating in the Working Landscapes

conference, collaborating with NGO’s, Native American tribes, farmers, and business owners.

• Initiated the incorporation, organization, development and funding of a 500 member, statewide

non-profit, the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota which has thrived for 25 years.

• Provided strategic leadership in all planning and lobbying efforts involving state and regional

NGO’s, businesses, and government agencies around policies around sustainable resource

management.

• Created and led promotional and educational workshops; did cold visiting and cold calling for

farmer, membership recruitment; wrote and edited brochures newsletters, e-zines, press releases

and copy for websites for non-profit organizations and private, coaching practice.

GRANT WRITING AND FUNDRAISING

• Prepared, received, successfully implemented, and did primary reporting for four, $380,000,

USDA grants and one $185,000 National Science Foundation grant, coordinating multiple

university and NGO partners.

• Negotiated over $100,000 in matching funds for multiple departments at the University of

California in order to secure federal grant money for graduate student funding during austerity

cuts in the California state budget.

• Provided fundraising assistance to 35 UCSC university faculty, finding private foundations to

fund research projects, working with foundation officers, submitting proposals raising over

$500,000 in a 10 hour /week, temporary position, in addition to another university appointment.

• Collaboratively wrote successful grants to private foundations including joint proposals with

other organizations for sustainable agriculture research, public health and education projects.

TRAININGS AND CERTIFICATIONS

2013 Natural Lifemanship – Trauma Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. Marshall, NC.

September 13-15, Marshall, NC.

2012 International Association for Trauma Professionals training in Trauma Treatments, September

18-19, San Francisco, CA.

2011 Gay and Kathleen Hendricks - Foundations in Conscious Living, Ventura, CA. Feb 3-6.

2008 Partnership Development and Maintenance Training, through the California Department of

Public Health’s Network for a Healthy California. September 8.

2007 UCSC Social Science Division federal grant writing workshop, Santa Cruz, CA.

2004-2005 Women’s Leadership Program, Rejuvenate Training/Thrive Academy, Santa Cruz, CA.

1999-2001 Coaches Training Institute Courses in Fundamentals, Fulfillment, Balance, and Process,

Bloomington MN.

Certificate in Therapeutic Coaching®. Meta Institute: Minneapolis, MN

2001-2003

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2001-2003 Certification in hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Psychology ™, group and systems

dynamics, Meta Institute, Minneapolis, MN.

2000-2003 Non-Denominational Minister of Healing and Counseling for illness, end of life,

bereavement, couples and marriage. Center for Wholeness, Minneapolis, MN.

1999-2001 The Forum and the Advanced Course, Landmark Education, Minneapolis, MN.

1999 Certificate in project planning with Stephen Covey’s, “What Matters Most,” Minneapolis, MN.

PROFESSIONAL, VOLUNTEER SERVICE AND COLLABORATIONS

2012 Assisted lobbying to implement rules at House and Senate and Department of Health and

Human Services for the “Wellstone and Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction

Equity Act”

2008 National Conference on Race, Gender, Power and Class, Novato, CA.

2007-2009 Kellogg Good Food Conference, Phoenix AZ and San Jose, CA.

2007-2012 Central Coast Hunger Coalition and STEPS for Healthy Monterey County, CA.

2005-2006 Volunteer at Walnut Street Women’s Shelter, Santa Cruz, CA.

2001-2002 Non-governmental organization representative to the Federal U.S. Midwest Natural

Resources Group.

2001-2002 Volunteer work at Pathways Health Crisis Resource Center, Minneapolis, MN.

1994-1995 Board member for the Mille Lacs County mobile child visitation, domestic violence

prevention with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibway, Onamia, MN.

1990-1996 Member of Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group.

1985-1987 Refugee resettlement intern working with refugee children with Travelers and

Immigrants Aid in Chicago and Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C.

1984-1986 Big Brother, Big Sister volunteer, Northfield, MN.

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