BESHARA SCHOOL

ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY, PhD
Oakland, CA  94608
http://www.elizd.com

http://www.holyh2o.org

elizd@elizd.com
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
Program Manager/Consultant; to strategize with team members to design and implement innovative solutions for sustainable management of water resources; to provide strategic support and encourage networking among stakeholders; to educate policy makers and wider audiences on key issues of water use and conservation, systems of permaculture; to incorporate local communities and for-profit institutions into solution design.

SKILLS and EXPERIENCE

• Rainwater Catchment Systems
• Permaculture/Agroecology/Sustainable organic agriculture
• Rural, international carbon credit programs
• Climate Change/renewable energy/energy efficiency
• Landscape Design
• Innovative and strategic project management
• Networking and coalition-building among similar and dissimilar constituents
• Self-motivation and out-of-the-box thinking
• Multidisciplinary teamwork
• Public speaking and media relations
• Research (field and document-based) and producing reports accessible to diverse audiences
• Working in international and multicultural settings

Flex Your Power, Program 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.
http://www.fypower.com

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.
    http://www.planetplantit.com

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.

University of Pennsylvania, Research Assistant.  Philadelphia, PA, 1994-1996
    Managed book-publishing preparation including text based research, copy write details; book publisher’s requests.

Professional Film Industry, Camera Person Los Angeles, New York 1987-1994
Camera person for feature films, commercials, television series, music videos, and documentaries filmed in 35mm/16mm. Member of IATSE Camera Union.
    http://abouteverethingblogx.com/?q=movie+credits+%22elizabeth+dougherty%22

PUBLICATIONS
2001    “Land, Culture, Rights: An Annotated Bibliography” Published by the Ford Foundation, through the Institute for International Studies at University of California at Berkeley.  Used by policy writers
2002    “Human Relations at the Heart of Environmental Conservation” Association of Latin American Anthropologists Newsletter.

EDUCATION
Ph.D.    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
     Center for Ethnographic Research, 2003

Dissertation: “The Politics of Conservation: A Study of Civil Society, Corruption, and Scales of Influence in Panama’s FIDECO Environmental Trust Fund”
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 Panama’s 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.

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.
   
RELATED RESEARCH
Cameroon, West Africa
    Conducted field research concerning the material effects of forest conservation projects and in Lac Lobeke and Dja National Parks on populations of Baka pygmies.

Cuba
    Agroecological Farming Tour, self-organized.

BA/BS    BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA, 1985
Bachelor of Arts        English Literature
    Bachelor of Science   Film and Broadcasting

PRESENTATIONS and CONFERENCE PAPERS
“The Politics of Conservation.” International Agroecology Short Course.  University of California at Santa Cruz, July 2003

“The Role of Civil Society in the Anti-Corruption Campaign in Panama.”  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.

“The Methodologies of Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations Working in Forest Conservation in Panama.”  Delivered to the scientific research staff of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Barro Colorado Island, Panama, March 1999.

"NGOs and Their Working Relations with Indigenous Peoples in Panama."  Princeton University - Panama campus, Panama City, Panama, January 1999.

"The Dynamics of Colonial Conservation in Africa."  Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism: Nation, Identity, Self” Conference, Washington, D.C., October 1995.

FELLOWSHIPS
Short Term Fellows Grant, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute for 1997 - 1999
Pennfield Dissertation Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania for 1997-1998

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Fluent in English, Conversational Spanish, Conversational French

REFERENCES ON REQUEST