Equitable Community Engagement in Transportation Electrification – Portland General Electric, PKS International, Thuy Tu Consulting (2023-ongoing) – Worked as part of a consulting team to engage historically underserved communities in visioning an electrified transportation sector in PGE’s service area. Included close collaboration with PGE and consulting team members, facilitating a Community Working Group of diverse stakeholders, developing social research tools, data analysis and reporting.
Hillsboro Parks System Plan Equitable Community Engagement – City of Hillsboro, Oregon, PKS International (2022-2024) – Worked as part of a consulting team to facilitate equitable community engagement in a planning and visioning process for Hillsboro’s parks and recreation department for the next 50 years. Included facilitation of a diverse Community Advisory Group, a survey of 1,600 residents with intentional oversampling of community members typically not heard in public involvement, focus groups with those same communities, data analysis, and a final report and recommendations.
Oregon Agricultural Worker Housing Study – State of Oregon Housing and Community Services (2019-2024) – A multi-year farmworker housing study focusing on the top four primary agricultural producing counties, including interviews with farmworkers, the farmers who employ them, and agency experts, demographic research, and state and county-level agricultural market analyses, recommendations used to propose policies and budget allocations to Oregon Legislature, achieved in partnership with ECO Northwest housing researchers, Latine community engagement liaisons through PKS International, and paid partnership with farmworkers and organizations serving them. See the final report here.
Community Garden Needs Assessment – Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District (2023) – Research to understand community garden successes and challenges, identify opportunities to expand community gardens, and identify how Tualatin SWCD can best support successful community gardens in Washington County. Included research plan co-development, an online survey of school and community garden managers, and in-depth interviews with community garden managers who serve BIPOC, low-income, or culturally specific communities and Washington County leaders in community garden development and management, data analysis, written report and recommendations, and project management.
Rural Landowner Opinion Research – East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District (2023) – Interviews with 30 farmland owners at the urban-rural interface to understand barriers and motivations around farmland preservation and recommendations to modify policies and programs to increase participation in farmland protection easement programs. Also included research plan development, research tool development, data analysis, written final report, and project management.
Sandy River Community Research Project – Sandy River Team, PKS International (2023) – Worked with PKS International to implement diverse community engagement with the goals of understanding how community members connect to and interact with the Sandy River watershed, hear about their concerns, needs, and interests, and gather opinions about re-starting the Sandy River Watershed Council and recommendations for programmatic directions and serving and engaging diverse communities going forward. Included collaborative research plan development, online survey implementation, focus groups with stakeholders from diverse community groups and interests, data analysis, and reporting and recommendations.
Housing Choice, HB2001, Equitable Community Engagement – Clackamas County Planning and Zoning Division, PKS International (2022) – Worked as part of a consulting team to engage racially diverse communities who are often overlooked in planning and public involvement to provide feedback about the HB2001 Housing Choice Bill implementation in Clackamas County. Included an online survey and community-specific information and listening sessions, data analysis and reporting.
Tualatin Watershed Enhancement Collaborative Research (2022) – Researched and developed new program concepts for agencies to address flooding and severe streambank erosion issues in urban Washington County. Included technical assistance to landowners, existing programs research, stakeholder and industry expert interviews, position research and development work, public event coordination, website development including user testing research, coordinating and facilitating work groups and meetings, and final report and recommendations.
Conservation Education Niche-Finding Project – West Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District (2022) – Worked to identify the best conservation education role WMSWCD can provide that will best support District stakeholders. Developed project research plan, conducted focus groups with diverse stakeholder groups, conducted local conservation education gap analysis, written recommendations highlighting gaps, recommendations from marginalized communities, and most appropriate roles for client conservation education efforts
Equity-focused PIC Grant Program Evaluation – East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District (2021) – Equity-focused evaluation of Partners In Conservation (PIC) grant program evaluation to understand barriers to BIPOC led and small organizations and offer recommendations for improving equity and access. Included collaborative research plan development, online survey of grant recipients, in-depth interviews with BIPOC-led grant recipients, a who leads/who benefits analysis of 70 grant reports, applications and budgets, data analysis, final report and recommendations, and presentation to agency staff and stakeholders.
Evaluation Plan and Stakeholder Engagement – Oregon State University Extension Service (2018-2020) – Facilitated a stakeholder engagement process and completed a comprehensive Evaluation Plan for an OSU sponsored state-wide Integrated Pest Management (IPM) information service, “Solve Pest Problems”. The project is a collaborative effort by many community and institutional stakeholders across Oregon with a specific focus on involving communities of color, renters, and families with children. Included working group meeting facilitation, collaboration with diverse stakeholders incorporate suggestions and feedback about the needs of communities of color in the development process; social science literature review of relevant research; development of Evaluation Plan, evaluation tools and methodologies, evaluation cost analysis, recommended next steps, and recommendations for an annual report.
Urban Washington County Market Research – Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District (2020) – Market research to understand conservation needs and interests of communities of color in urban Washington County. Included an online survey of stakeholder agencies and virtual focus groups with eight communities of color and culturally specific groups, data analysis, final report detailing research results, community requests, and recommendations, and presenting research findings.
Rural Landowner Market Research – Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District & Clean Water Services (2018) – Designed and conducted market research to determine how to best expand private landowner conservation incentive programs. Conducted surveys with nearly 100 rural landowners, analyzed data, and prepared recommendations on best outreach and messaging strategies, stakeholder values and concerns, points of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, needs and interests, and motivations and barriers to participation.
Our Land. Our Water. Program Development – King Conservation District (2017-2018)- Residential landowner program development to increase riparian enhancement projects on private property: includes a workshop presentation and teaching guide, how-to fact sheets for practices, recommendations for incentives and ongoing support for participants, a report on existing local social science research, a social marketing strategy, a step-by-step program implementation guide, program branding and marketing components (name, logo, tagline, etc.), evaluation tools and an evaluation methodology
Clean Water Services –
- Streamside Property Outreach Program Development and Pilot (2018) – developed and tested program methodology to increase riparian enhancement partnerships on private property, included Program Implementation Guide, marketing and messaging recommendations, site visit forms and data collection mechanisms, a partner survey, a program evaluation methodology, and guidelines for program adaptive management, pilot tested strategies with landowners, effectiveness reporting and recommendations
- Watershed Health Field Trip Program (2015-2019) – program development, implementation, evaluation, in partnership with Friends of Trees, including virtual and bilingual program development, teacher partnerships, curriculum development, staff and volunteer recruitment and training, annual program reports
Cultural Vistas International, Washington D.C. (2015): Conference Coordination and Management, YSEALI Generation Earth sustainability conference for young Southeast Asian environmental leaders in ASEAN member nations, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Clackamas Co. Water Environment Services, CCSD#1 (2014-2015) – Watershed Health Education Program for K-12 schools, including design and installation of stormwater management retrofits at schools with students
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