Beryl Fernandes
consultant

Provide consulting services to public agencies, businesses and nonprofit organizations locally, nationally and internationally in urban planning and management, including infrastructure planning, asset management, policy analysis and development, program performance monitoring and evaluation and process improvement.

Provide large and small businesses with philanthropic project advice, project development and opportunities for participation in community development projects e.g. created a mutually beneficial opportunity for Yellow Transportation, the largest trucking company in the world, to collaborate on the Katrina Bikes Partnership Project by providing trucks and drivers to haul bikes from Seattle to Louisiana after the hurricane - see www.katrinabikes.org

Long-time community volunteer including disaster relief efforts, mentor for inner-city middle and high school students, low-income university students, outdoor activities coach for women cancer survivors, juvenile offenders and high school students.

Avid outdoors enthusiast - distance cycling, hiking, scrambling, skiing, kayaking, international travel and world music.

Urban planning research, analysis, report writing and editing; management accountability programs including performance monitoring and evaluation, executive interviews; visioning and partnership development; collaborative strategic planning; conflict resolution and mediation.

Create effective partnerships towards common visions between businesses and communities on philanthropic efforts; government agencies and communities for collaborative planning on complex projects; nonprofit organizations and communities for community development projects.

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B.A. Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Ph.D., U. of Washington, Seattle, Interdisciplinary program in Urban Planning, Environmental Engineering and Public Policy

President, Fernandes & Associates, Inc., Consulting Firm,
Policy Advisor, Strategic Advisor and Regional Director for public agencies
Executive Director, Nonprofit Organization