Singapore
Environmental educator, program designer, and organiser with a passion for intangible natural and sociolinguistic heritage.
Lead on environmental education, capacity-building opportunities for conservation careers across the Asia-Pacific for youth, and community partnerships in Singapore. • Programme design, evaluation, collaborative implementation, fundraising proposal writing, people manager, community partner. • Chair of Education & Communications Subgroup, Singapore Pangolin Working Group.
Highlights: • Led the design, production, and curation of three virtual learning series for schools on complex environmental topics such as oceans, mangroves, and climate change. These resources include interactive activities for students, captivating media, educator resources, as well as local and regional case studies to bring science to life, and into homes and classrooms. • Led a partnership with the Schmidt Ocean Institute and Boston University on education programming from a deep-sea expedition in the Pacific Ocean in 2021, bringing ocean science and careers to hundreds of students in Singapore schools and universities. • Coordinated a tripartite partnership with the Government of the Republic of Timor-Leste and Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum for scientific research and knowledge-sharing to improve conservation and community outcomes; and conducted a pre-expedition recce to Timor-Leste's protected areas in 2022 to assess biodiversity, feasibility, and protocol for future Rapid Assessment Programmes.
Highlight: • Designed and curated ocean education outputs for schools through CI's Whale Shark Tagging Program, tracking the largest fish in the sea using satellite tags; in partnership with marine experts Dr. Mark Erdmann and Abraham Sianipar.
Content curator, researcher, and writer on Singapore's forest ecosystems and native biodiversity for a permanent public exhibition at the Forest Discovery Centre @ OCBC Arboretum, at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
Language documentation researcher at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences working on Kristang (a critically-endangered Portuguese-Malay creole of Malaya) as spoken in Singapore. Software capabilities: SayMore, FLEx, ELAN, Audacity.
• Copywriter for education technology start-up CognaLearn's (and its subsidiaries e.g. MEDNIVA) web content, social media channels, and marketing materials. • Writer and editor for company's pitch decks, B2B and B2C workshop syllabi, and edtech conference materials.