Veronica Limeberry

Experience

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  Navdanya International

  Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

  Intern

  Intern for agricultural sustainability research with Dr. Vandana Shiva at her internationally renowned sustainable farm, Navdanya. Worked with rural women farmers to understand models of sustainable, biodynamic farm production, networked with regional NGOs and non-profits to increase educational opportunities, attended workshops and lectures on sustainable farm production

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  Build It Up! East Tennesse

  Nov 2011 - May 2015

  Co-Founder/Program Leader

  Develop and maintain non-profit status through national partnership with Grand Aspirations, assist in all program planning, coordinate financial development, organize and manage volunteers, assist in grant writing and administration, serve as an adviser to program leaders

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  Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - WILPF

  Mar 2012 - Mar 2012

  Policy Advocate

  Serve as a representative for WILPF, talk with high-profile country and NGO leaders to advocate for rural women's needs, network with representatives to increase regional and international partnerships for rural women, assist in developing gender-specific goals to be presented to UN governing bodies

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  East Tennessee State University

  Aug 2012 - May 2013

  Coordinate all program activities, plan and organize events, advise Women's Studies student honor society, track and maintain student database, organize student advising days, serve as a direct assistant to the program chair, maintain partnerships with other organizations and university programs, manage student workers, coordinate outreach and educational opportunities, organize program resources for students and staff Create course syllabus based on current Women's Studies research and pedagogical theory, implement course activities and instruction, work with students to increase course understanding and writing skills

  • Women's Studies Program Coordinator

    Jan 2011 - May 2013

  • Teaching Assistant

    Aug 2012 - Dec 2012
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  East Tennessee State University

  Jul 2013 - Feb 2014

  Program Development Consultant

  Create program database to track enrollment and graduation statistics, analyze current student and alumni experiences in program, analyze staff and instructor experiences in program, create and implement strategic plan to increase enrollment and graduation, develop promotional materials and coordinate outreach opportunities

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  Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council

  Feb 2014 - Mar 2015

  Coordinate educational events to improve community knowledge of local food systems, write and administer grants, assist in establishing the region's first local-food-only farm store--Boone St. Market, create the first region-wide database of local producers, connect local producers to local food-related businesses, analyze data to create a baseline survey of current local food economy, increase regional partnerships to support local agriculture, improve sales for local producers

  • Locally Grown Development Coordinator

    Feb 2014 - Mar 2015

  • Community Development Coordinator, AmeriCorps/OSM Vista

    Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
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  Jonesborough Locally Grown

  Mar 2015 - Jun 2016

  Community Outreach Coordinator

  Establish and maintain the Boone Street Market community kitchen, coordinate educational opportunities and workshops to improve the local food economy, recruit and manage volunteers, increase accessibility and sales of local food through the Jonesborough Locally Grown hub

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  United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), New Delhi

  May 2015 - Jul 2016

  US-NEHRU Fulbright Fellow

  Record and document stories of women participating in community-based sustainable agriculture models in northern India;Work with communities to collect quantitative data on amount of accessible food through sustainable agriculture activities and direct impacts on livelihood;Attend women’s shared workshops on improving national sustainable agriculture models and activities;Facilitate international networking between rural mountain farmers of north India and the central Appalachian mountains in the US;Complete and present report on findings and recommendations for improving sustainable agriculture models that support gender equity internationally Show less

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  American Farmland Trust

  Feb 2016 - Oct 2016

  Program Development Consultant

  Assist in the establishment and pilot program of Women's Conservation and Land Learning Circles

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  National Student Leadership Conference

  Apr 2017 - Sept 2019

  Lecturer

  Seminars on Global Public Health

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  NMBU - Norwegian University of Life Sciences

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2018

  Research Fellow
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  Agroecology Research Action Collective

  Feb 2018 - Oct 2022

  Research Collaborator

  We are a group of scholars working on issues of farm justice, food justice, food sovereignty, and agroecology in the North American context. As engaged scholars, we commit to working within and alongside the social movements of farmers, workers, organizers, and advocates who are transforming our food and political systems towards justice and ecological health. To become valuable contributors to these movements, we commit to organizing our scholarly community, with the aim to become evermore thoughtful, accountable, and effective partners in how we pursue knowledge production, and in how we share and mobilize this knowledge. Our plan is to leverage our institutional and personal resources to prioritize movement-relevant and partnership-based research, elevate the scientific validity and worth of knowledge created outside the academy, provide asked-for social movement support, and pursue advocacy to effect positive change. Show less

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  Accountability Research Center

  Sept 2019 - Jul 2020

  Policy Research Consultant
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  American University School of International Service

  Sept 2019 - Jan 2024

  Qualitative research regarding projects related to agrobiodiversity conservation, genderequity in agriculture, hunger reduction, and international farmers’ rights movement organizing.

  • Research Assistant

    Aug 2017 - Jan 2024

  • Research Assistant

    Sept 2019 - Oct 2022
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  FAO

  Jan 2020 - Oct 2022

  Research Collaborator
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  Center for Environment Community and Equity at American University

  Oct 2022 - Jan 2024

  Project Manager

  Indigenous Ecologies and Sovereignties University Research Center

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  Highlander Research and Education Center

  Aug 2023 - now

  Board of Directors
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  National Science Foundation (NSF)

  Jan 2024 - now

  NSF Social & Behavioral Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow