Elizabeth Dougherty,
Ph.D.
Oakland, CA 94608
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Program
Manager/Consultant; to strategize with team members to design and implement innovative
solutions for sustainable management of energy resources; to provide strategic
support and encourage networking among stakeholders; to educate policy makers
and wider audiences on key issues of energy efficiency, climate change
mitigation and demand response; to incorporate local communities and for-profit
institutions into solution design.
á Climate
Change Mitigation/Renewable Energy/Energy Efficiency/Demand Response
á Integrated
Resource Planning
á Innovative
and strategic project management
á Networking
and coalition-building among similar and dissimilar constituents
á Self-motivation
and out-of-the-box thinking
á Multidisciplinary
teamwork
á Public
speaking and media relations
á Research
(field and document-based) and producing reports accessible to diverse
audiences
á Working
in international and multicultural settings
á Sustainable
Agriculture/Agroecology
Flex Your Power,
Project Manager. San Francisco, CA 2006
Outreach, research and
writing on energy efficiency, demand response and climate change in the
industrial, manufacturing, high tech and biotech, city government and
low-income sectors, with emphasis on design, assessments, incentives and
benchmarking efficiency projects with partners; linking and building alliances
between research organizations, associations, private businesses, state
residents, and government entities.
Planet Plant It! Owner. Agroecology and
Permaculture Education, Design & Installation. Oakland, CA 2000-2006
Teaching
sustainable and organic food production and permaculture; providing
consultation, design and installation of organic food and ornamental gardens,
increasing urban biodiversity and community awareness of local ecology.
Institute
for Agriculture & Trade Policy, Fair Trade Fair Coordinator. Cancun,
Mexico, 2003
Strategic planning of
First International Fair Trade Fair; hosting/educating WTO Trade Ministers and
delegations; providing multimedia interviews; creating liaisons and
facilitating networking opportunities of 120 international Fair participants
from over 18 countries; recruiting and managing large pool of volunteers;
coordinating Fair logistics and advertising; writing informational and position
copy for program materials; Spanish primary language.
http://www.gersterconsulting.ch/gallerys/gcons_webgallerieCC/index.html
http://www.gersterconsulting.ch/docs/FTF_Cancun_proceedings.pdf
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/bwi-wto/wto/2003/0806fairtrade.htm
International
Development Exchange, Researcher. San Francisco, CA, 2002
Tracking information
concerning trade and infrastructure development of Plan Puebla Panama,
including the scope and impact of the both government-directed and grassroots
development.
www.idex.org/publications/IDEXAnnualRpt03.pdf
Institute for
International Studies, Policy Researcher/Writer. Ford Foundation, 2001
Researching and writing extensive report
entitled "The Global Commons: Land, Culture, Rights" designed for use
by policy writers and analysts.
Presenting theories and practices of mapping, forced relocation,
migration, biotechnology, intellectual property rights, land titling,
urbanization.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EnvirPol/Bib/B04-Dougherty.pdf
Growth of
Environmental Strategies & Projects Consultant Group, Consultant. Panama, 1999
Team-working
with multidisciplinary researchers to conduct in-depth field interviews and background
research on the Darien Region of Panama; writing of grant proposal presented to
USAID, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank as a subcontract in
$100,000,000 infrastructure development project. Project based on creating
viable institutions to productively manage relations among project personnel,
local governmental offices and resident populations. GEA was awarded the
contract.
http://www.iadb.org/exr/PRENSA/1998/cp32698e.htm
Tree Top Explorations, Consultant. Costa Rica, 1996-1998
Designing
environmental education curriculum and promotional materials for rain forest
canopy-access programs; site-appropriate community outreach; fundraising;
providing research scientists and tourists increased exposure to tropical
forest biodiversity through canopy platform program.
http://www.wildland.com/trips/accommodations/costarica/corcovado_lodge_tent.aspx
Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute and University of Pennsylvania, Co-instructor in Tropical
Field Biology.
Panama, 1995
Co-instructor
for intensive course in tropical field ecology.
http://www.stri.org/english/education_fellowships/field_courses/index.php
University of
Pennsylvania,
Research Assistant. Philadelphia,
PA, 1994-1996
Managed book-publishing
preparation including text based research, copy write details; book publisherÕs
requests.
Professional Film
Industry, Camera Person Los Angeles, New York 1987-1994
http://abouteverethingblogx.com/?q=movie+credits+%22elizabeth+dougherty%22
2001 ÒLand, Culture, Rights: An
Annotated BibliographyÓ Published by the Ford Foundation, through the Institute
for International Studies at University of California at Berkeley. Used by policy writers. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EnvirPol/Bib/B04-Dougherty.pdf
2002 ÒHuman Relations at the Heart
of Environmental ConservationÓ Association of Latin American Anthropologists
Newsletter.
Ph.D. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Center for Ethnographic Research, 2003
Dissertation: ÒThe Politics of Conservation:
A Study of Civil Society, Corruption, and Scales of Influence in PanamaÕs
FIDECO Environmental Trust FundÓ
Research focused on a $27 million
environmental trust fund established by USAID, The Nature Conservancy and
Government of Panama. This
dissertation demonstrates that international economic and political interests
in the Panama Canal watershed direct the methods for implementing agroforestry
and permaculture programs in PanamaÕs forested areas, overshadowing the social
and environmental needs. The
governmental and nongovernmental alliance has yet to set a comprehensive
environmental agenda that would encourage the cohesion of a nationally-based
civil society in Panama. Concurrently, there are several Panamanian NGOs
establishing standards for environmental sustainability through grass roots
level action, which in turn serves to cohere particular civil activity into a
more general civil society.
http://www.elizd.com/website-LeftBrain/panama/panamap1.html
Short Course in Agroecology, University of
California at Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, California,
August 1998
Training in
agricultural practices as related to urban and rural ecosystems. Includes GIS, soil nutrient testing,
crop rotation and inter-cropping, animal husbandry.
http://www.agroecology.org/shortcourse/1999/participants.htm
Cameroon, West
Africa, 1996
Conducted
field research concerning the material effects of forest conservation projects
and in Lac Lobeke and Dja National Parks on populations of Baka pygmies.
Agroecological
Farming Tour, self-organized.
BA/BS BOSTON
UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA, 1985
Bachelor of Arts
English Literature
Bachelor
of Science Film and Broadcasting
ÒThe Politics of Conservation.Ó International Agroecology Short Course. University of California at Santa Cruz, July 2003.
ÒThe Role of Civil Society in the Anti-Corruption Campaign in Panama.Ó Latin American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., September 2001.
"The
Thorny Question: Theorizing a Politics of Corruption." American
Anthropological Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, November, 2000
(Panel Organizer).
"Fact
and Gossip: Designing Methodologies for Natural and Social Scientists Working
Together in the Field" Agrarian Studies Group at the University of
California at Berkeley, April 2000, (co-presenter: Miriam Wells).
"Deconstructing
Civil Society: A Study of the FIDECOMISO Ecological Trust Fund in Panama."
Latin American Studies Association Conference, Miami, FL, March 2000.
Short Term Fellows
Grant, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute for 1997 - 1999
Pennfield Dissertation
Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania for 1997-1998
Fluent in English,
Advanced Spanish, Conversational French