MERITO Foundation – Program Assistant

MERITO Foundation, stand for Multicultural Education for Resources Issues Threatening Oceans and is a non-profit organization (501(c)3). MERITO’s mission is to enhance ocean and climate science literacy among multicultural communities while supporting marine research and conservation in order to promote healthy ocean ecosystems and inspire the new generation of ocean professionals.

I joined MERITO Foundation’s team October of 2016 as an intern and recently offered a position as a Program Assistant. I’ve been responsible to oversee on-line mapping platform development of Field Scope and the transfer of go daddy e-mail to gmail. I’m responsible to oversee social media management and strengthen our presence in our community. Other responsibilities are directly related to supporting MERITO programs in the Santa Barbara, Ventura and Channel Islands regions.