HANNAH CALLOWAY

Designing and Scaling Programs
at the intersection of
Community Resilience and Land Restoration


Hannah.jane@carbonteach.com

Justice-Oriented & Systems-Minded

Program Manager for socio-ecological wellbeing with 10 years of experience developing and delivering community-facing environmental resilience programs alongside diverse, international audiences.

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Key Skills & Services

    • Designing, Delivering, Managing and Scaling community-facing, capacity-building environmental programs for non-profits and international audiences since 2014.

    • Expert in curriculum design of 10+ years with my M.S. in Environmental Education

    • Designing & facilitating peer-learning workshops to foster environmental literacy and generate real-world climate action.

    • Creating online, self-paced, interactive e-learning course that can be hosted on your website or Learning Management System (LMS).

    • Leveraging expertise in climate education to design and facilitate educational and capacity-building programs to enhance community resilience and adaptation to a changing climate.

    • M.S. Environmental Education & 10+ years designing and delivering learning experiences.

    • Impact measurement: Academically-trained and highly experienced designing and utilizing evaluation and assessment tools for impact measurement and program improvement.

    • Comprehensive program evaluation framework: designing objectives, defining metrics for success, creating evaluation rubric, identifying appropriate methods for data collection (quantitative and qualitative) and designing accordingly, and analysis for program improvement.

    • Partnerships and Collaboration: skilled relationship-builder with exceptional ability to lead, collaborate, and thrive in multicultural settings.

    • Institutional Community Building: Experienced managing internal comms, designing and facilitating team retreats that engage and inspire, building connective systems that help remote teams thrive together, anywhere.

    • Events, Outreach: seasoned in designing and launching complex in-person and virtual events; managing outreach, recruitment, participant and trainer logistics.

    • Experience managing annual program budgets of up to $300K.

    • Demonstrated success securing multi-year grant funds for programming.

Featured Work

PROGRAM & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

    • Global Program Design & Management

    • E-Learning, Instructional Design, LMS

    • Curriculum & Training Design

    • Content Development & Communications

    • Organizational & Change Management

  • Iterative Program Framework Design: Developed and operationalized an iterative program framework for the Biochar Academy capacity-building program to ensure cultural adaptability. Framework has been applied to adapt 4+ trainings, reaching multicultural audiences in 20+ countries.

  • International Biochar Initiative
    Design and manage online and in-person education and capacity-building programs to train seasoned and emerging practitioners in carbon removal, biochar production, and end-uses of biochar focused on agriculture, soil and water remediation, as well as industrial applications for decarbonization such as asphalt, the built environment, and cement.

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

    • Curriculum Design

    • Live Virtual Instruction (2 hr weekly lectures)

    • Science Communication

  • Envisioned and developed the interactive, virtual community-building “Live Lab” program for the Climatebase Fellowship, created to help 500+ fellows translate their virtual experience into real-world context and application through scenario-based problem solving in peer workshops.

  • As Instructional Designer and Instructor with the Climatebase Fellowship, my work involves:
    • Designing and delivering Live Lab curriculum (learning objectives, outcomes, content and activities). Live Labs are twice-weekly virtual sessions designed to translate fellowship learning into real-world application.
    • Supporting content development and advising curriculum design for Fellowship learning sessions.
    • Delivering 90-minute weekly lectures in diverse topic-areas within climate change as an industry.
    • Design engaging, well-scaffolded, beautiful and on-brand slide decks for Fellowship curriculum sessions.


CLIMATE WORKSHOP DESIGNER

    • Curriculum and Training Design

    • Comprehensive Program Evaluation and Assessment Development

    • Evaluation Assessment

    • Program Improvement

    • Train-the-Trainer

  • Designed community-based, climate resilience workshop series Climate Ready with culturally-relevant environmental justice tools for disaster preparedness, climate legislation/ litigation, and climate adaptation strategies.

  • Contracted Environmental Education Consultant for Queens Public Library, one of the largest Public library system in the U.S., serving the most ethnically and culturally diverse area in the country.

INSTRUCTOR

    • Curriculum Design

    • Live Virtual Instruction

    • Partnership development and management

    • Program Delivery

  • Delivered the Climate Change Master Class 4-Part Virtual Workshop to American Express and Nutanix.

  • Environmental Education Manager for Earthwatch: Applied my specialization in sustainability-focused program management and education to design, deliver, evaluate, and train others to produce high-quality, culturally responsive programming to a wide range of target audiences according to corporate and grant funding.

PANEL MODERATOR

    • Facilitation & Moderation

    • Virtual Event Planning

    • Climate Finance Knowledge

    • Partnership collaboration

  • Managed the virtual event from partnership to delivery

  • Collaborated with Kita.Earth to develop, launch and moderate this virtual panel event


INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR

    • Spanish fluency

    • Cross-cultural Collaboration

    • Facilitation & Moderation

    • Curriculum Development & Education

    • Trip leading

    • Event Logistics

    • Safety & Risk Management

  • Managed 3 direct seasonal reports that returned for 3 seasons to work under my leadership.

    • Led multi-country environmental leadership initiatives for 150+youth in english and spanish

Program & Project Management

capacity-building program

    • Global Program Design & Management

    • E-Learning, Instructional Design, LMS

    • Curriculum & Training Design

    • Content Development & Communications

    • Organizational & Change Management

  • Iterative Program Framework Design: Developed and operationalized an iterative program framework for the Biochar Academy capacity-building program to ensure cultural adaptability. Framework has been applied to adapt 4+ trainings, reaching multicultural audiences in 20+ countries.

  • International Biochar Initiative
    Design and manage online and in-person education and capacity-building programs to train seasoned and emerging practitioners in carbon removal, biochar production, and end-uses of biochar focused on agriculture, soil and water remediation, as well as industrial applications for decarbonization such as asphalt, the built environment, and cement.

youth education program

    • Organizational Management

    • Team Management (15 direct reports)

    • Program Design & Management

    • Budget & accounting ($150K annual)

    • Curriculum Design and Staff Training

  • Developed a 3-week staff training program that fostered a strong sense of belonging, contributing to a staff seasonal return rate of 96%

  • Directed Community Nature Connection’s Outdoor Education Camp located in the Santa Monica Mountains.

DEI & Justice program

    • Strategic Planning & Change Management

    • Grant Writing

    • Program Design and Management

    • Training Development and Delivery

    • Recruitment & Hiring

  • Secured $100K grant funds to develop the department’s first Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Justice (EDIJ) Strategic Plan and implement associated initiatives.

  • Oversight of Southern Oregon University Master of Science in Environmental Education's Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Justice (EDIJ) initiatives focused increasing access to and success in the field of environmental education, higher education, and STEM.

communications project

    • Research, Writing, Editing

    • Climate Finance Knowledge

    • Communications

    • Carbon Standards and Methodologies

  • Managed the entire project within the International Biochar Initiative, from establishing partnership with Hamerkop Climate Impacts Ltd to publication.

  • Project Manager of the Manual for Biochar Carbon Removal from within my role as Program Manager at the International Biochar Initiative

Testimonials

Hannah is a deeply collaborative, fast-paced systems-thinker and creative visionary. She excels both in strategy as well as on-the-ground execution. Her work always delivered tangible results and received high accolades, whether she was guiding international partnerships, designing climate education initiatives, envisioning organizational strategy or aligning diverse multicultural stakeholders with her incredible people skills.
Executive Director @ International Biochar Initiative

The program that Hannah developed and provided us with is beyond excellent!! Hannah took a rough concept and outline and thoughtfully gave us not only a detailed curriculum but layered it with a Train-the Trainer format allowing us to turnkey the information to staff, created participant guides for attendees to possess, and evaluation tools to help ensure understanding and fidelity in practice. Her approach to research customized the information to our county and city without sacrificing a global perspective and her writing style accounted for a lay-audience not expected to be climate experts.
Director of Civic Engagement @ Queens Public Library