HANNAH CALLOWAY
Program Manager, Systems Designer, Educator, Writer
Designing and Scaling Programs
at the intersection of
Ecological Restoration and Community Resilience
Hannah.jane@carbonteach.com
Justice-Oriented & Systems-Minded
Program Manager, Systems Designer, Educator, Writer
for socio-ecological wellbeing with 10 years of experience developing and delivering public-facing environmental resilience programs for diverse, international audiences.
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Key Skills & Services
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Designing, Delivering, Managing and Scaling community-facing, capacity-building environmental programs for non-profits and international audiences since 2014.
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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).
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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.
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Academically trained through M.S. in Environmental Education to translate complex scientific research into accessible, engaging content for diverse audiences.
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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.
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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.
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Experience managing annual program budgets of up to $300K.
Demonstrated success securing multi-year grant funds for programming.
CAPACITY-BUILDING PROGRAM MANAGER
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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.Key Skills Leveraged:
Global Program Design & Management
E-Learning, Instructional Design, LMS
Curriculum & Training Design
Content Development & Communications
Organizational & Change Management
One Key Achievement:
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.
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER
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Key Skills Leveraged:
Curriculum Development
Live Virtual Instruction (2 hr weekly lectures)
Science Communication
Ppt design
Achievement Highlight:
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.
CLIMATE WORKSHOP DESIGNER
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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.
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.
Key Skills Leveraged:
Curriculum and Training Design
Comprehensive Program Evaluation and Assessment Development
Evaluation Assessment
Program Improvement
Train-the-Trainer
Featured Work
DEI & JUSTICE COORDINATOR
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Managed 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.
Key Skills Leveraged
Strategic Planning & Change Management
Grant Writing
Program Design and Management
Training Development and Delivery
Recruitment & Hiring
One Key Highlight:
Secured $100K grant funds to develop the department’s first Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Justice (EDIJ) Strategic Plan and implement associated initiatives.
LEAD EDITOR &
CO-AUTHOR
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Project Manager of the Manual for Biochar Carbon Removal from within my role as Program Manager at the International Biochar Initiative.
Key Skills Leveraged:
Research, Writing, Editing
Climate Finance Knowledge
Communications
Carbon Standards and Methodologies
PANEL MODERATOR
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Collaborated with Kita.Earth to develop, launch, and moderate this virtual panel event.
Key Skills Leveraged:
Facilitation & Moderation
Virtual Event Planning
Climate Finance Knowledge
Partnership collaboration
EDUCATION DIRECTOR
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Directed Community Nature Connection’s Outdoor Education Camp located in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Achievement Highlight:
Developed a 3-week staff training program that fostered a strong sense of belonging, contributing to a staff seasonal return rate of 96%
Key Skills Leveraged:
Organizational Management
Team Management (15 direct reports)
Program Design & Management
Budget & accounting ($150K annual)
Curriculum Design and Staff Training
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR
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Led multi-country environmental leadership initiatives for 150+youth in english and spanish. Managed 3 direct seasonal reports that returned for 3 seasons to work under my leadership.
Skills Leveraged:
Spanish fluency
Cross-cultural Collaboration
Facilitation & Moderation
Curriculum Development & Education
Trip leading
Event Logistics
Safety & Risk Management
INSTRUCTOR
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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.
Delivered the Climate Change Master Class 4-Part Virtual Workshop to American Express and Nutanix.
Skills Leveraged:
Curriculum Design
Live Virtual Instruction
Partnership development and management
Program Delivery
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER
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Created all online courses, set up Learning Management System (LMS) and managed online learning for the International Biochar Initiative
Achievement Highlight:
Developed a 3-week staff training program that fostered a strong sense of belonging, contributing to a staff seasonal return rate of 96%
Key Skills Leveraged:
Online course development
Instructional Design
Biochar Education
Science Communication
Project Management
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
