Michelle Lockett
Community Engagement Director at Niagara River Greenway
Town of Grand Island, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Lockett is a seasoned community engagement director with nine years of experience leading place-based education and stewardship programs that connect students, municipal leaders, and environmental partners around freshwater ecology and trail preservation. With a background in market research, CRM, and knowledge translation, she translates complex research into actionable community initiatives and grant-ready proposals. At Niagara River Greenway she built youth stewardship curricula, managed the Adopt a Trail program, and scaled signature events like Paddles Up Niagara while also maintaining digital outreach. Her career blends rigorous analytic skills—from longitudinal case studies and scoping reviews—to hands-on program logistics and stakeholder mobilization, a combination that consistently turns evidence into sustained community impact. An MBA-trained strategist who started her career in customer insight and retail analytics, she brings an uncommon mix of data-driven planning and grassroots organizing to environmental health and public engagement.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MBA, Business & Marketing, MBA, Business & Marketing at Canisius UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology at Ithaca College
Github Skills (6)
newsapi4
nodejs2
event-emitter2
api1
docker1
mongodb1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CapedWonders/fetcher-service
May 2018 - Jun 2018
fetch news and article data, format and save
Contributions:121 PRs, 153 pushes, 13 branches in 27 days
fetchnewsdata-formatprefetch
michellelockett/eco-chamber
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:203 pushes, 79 branches in 1 month
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