SUMMARY

• Program management and project coordination
• Program development and implementation
• Needs and resources assessment
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Budget management and expense monitoring
• Technical report and grant writing
• Training and workshop facilitation
• Ethnographic and community health research, including participant-observation, interviews, surveys, and evaluations
• Conversational in French and Spanish
• Cultural competency; multi-cultural experience

• Conduct culturally-competent, income-sensitive health education workshops in local San Diego communities.
• Focused on Latino individuals and families with cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk factors.
• Workshops include overview of chronic disease risk factors, taste testings, exercise session, and Q&A discussion.
• Write daily blog on a variety of health and fitness topics.
• Conduct interviews for independent research on provider perceptions of inmates' right to healthcare.
• Analyze findings.
• Write prospective study for publication.

Immigrant Life Course Research Program, University of Maryland
Researcher and Consultant, Jan. 2007 to May 2008

• Develop health interventions for low-income and high-risk populations; submit IRB applications.
• Analyze program data and write research reports.
• Present findings at national conference and college classes.
• Conduct literature reviews and collect data.
• Interview research participants and analyze findings.
• Create museum exhibit panels.
• Assistant teach seminar.

Pregnancy Aid Centers, College Park, Maryland
Health Educator, May to Dec. 2007

• Assess, develop, and implement a pilot health education program.
• Conduct culturally-sensitive individual counseling sessions and group workshops to improve health behavior.  
• Evaluate clients’ barriers to accessing health interventions.
• Conduct outreach to community and recruit participants.
• Follow up with patients and conduct assessments.
• Develop educational tools and resources.
• Write and submit grants proposals and reports.
• Supervise field placement students.
• Assist social worker with caseload and schedule appointments as needed.

Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, University of Maryland
Communications Coordinator, Sept. 2006 to May 2007

• Design, copywrite, copyedit, and manage print production of collateral materials and research reports.
• Maintain Website; copywrite Webpages.
• Copywrite and disseminate press releases.

Centre for Development and Population Activities, Washington, DC
Advisor, Communications, Sept. 2005 to Sept. 2006

• Copywrite and copyedit news articles and project Webpages.
• Assist in redesigning Website and intranet; maintain both sites.
• Design and copywrite collateral and promotional materials.
• Manage print production and publication sales.
• Plan and coordinate all promotional events.
• Represent CEDPA at international and national conferences.

Management Sciences for Health, Arlington, Virginia
Training Coordinator, Sept. 2003 to Aug. 2005

• Coordinate logistics for training and workshop activities.
• Assess, develop, implement, and evaluate staff development program.
• Forecast, negotiate, and maintain training program budgets.
• Monitor and evaluate training program progress through direct and regular contact with trainers and participants.
• Develop and analyze survey questionnaires.
• Design and manage print production of training and technical materials, including manuals and presentations.
• Conduct literature search and review.
• Assist with evaluating pharmaceutical management program in Ghana, Tanzania, and Kenya.

DPR Construction, Fairfax and Richmond, Virginia
Marketing Coordinator, Oct. 1999 to May 2003

• Manage entire proposal process from conception to submission.
• Research, write, edit, and design proposals and presentations.
• Conceptualize, write, edit, and design promotional materials
• Manage print production process.
• Research, write, edit, and disseminate press releases.
• Assist in developing marketing budget.
• Represent DPR at regional conferences.

Volunteer San Diego, San Diego, California
Grant Researcher, 2009–present

• Research viable funders and grant opportunities.

St. Vincent De Paul Family Health Center, San Diego, California
Volunteer, Diabetes Education Program & Patient Assistance Program, 2009–present

• Assist teach diabetes health education workshops.
• Consults with patients on diabetes self care.
• Support patient assistance program.

Spanish Catholic Center, Silver Spring, Maryland
Volunteer, Diabetes Education Program, 2006

• Assist with diabetes health education program and workshops.
• Translate forms from English to Spanish.
• Assist coordinator, nutritionist, and Latino participants as needed.
• Extrapolate medical chart data and enter data into agency and county diabetes databases.

Washington Assn of Professional Anthropologists, Washington, DC
Newsletter Editor, 2005–2007

• Copyedit articles for monthly newsletter.
• Layout HTML and print newsletter and event announcements.
• Disseminate newsletter and announcements.

Volunteers for Change, Fairfax, Virginia
Volunteer, 2000–2004

• Active in working with the homeless, promoting literacy awareness, environmental management, entertaining children, and various other community service activities.
• Managed four to ten volunteers at various events.

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Master of Applied Anthropology (May 2008)
Anthropology of health concentration with focus on immigrant and low-income populations and community health education.

Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology (May 1999)
Thesis focused on use of visual communication in highland Papua New Guinea.

• Desktop publishing (InDesign, Publisher, Word), presentation (PowerPoint), and graphic design software (Illustrator, Photoshop, Visio)
• Web development (HTML, CSS) and software (Dreamweaver, FrontPage)
• Qualitative analysis software (Atlas.ti) and quantitative software and statistical databases (SPSS, Access)
• File management databases (FileMaker Pro)
• Budget management software (QuickBooks, Excel)
• Project management software (Project)

Donaldson-Lopez, Jackie
2007a            Developing an Intervention at a Community Clinic: How Latinas View Their Gestational Diabetes Care and Treatment. (Unpublished). College Park, MD: University of Maryland.
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2007b            Evaluation Report on Barriers to Accessing Health Education Workshops: Client and Provider Perceptions. (Unpublished). College Park, MD: University of Maryland.
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2008               The Anthropology of Health: Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Health Education Intervention. Master's thesis, University of Maryland.
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2008                Epidemiology of Autoimmune Liver Diseases: A Proposal to Study Concurrent Autoimmune Diseases for Patient Education. (Unpublished). College Park, MD: University of Maryland.
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2008                Profile of Prince George's County, Maryland. College Park, MD: University of Maryland.
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2008                The Students of Prince George's County Maryland. Fact Sheet. College Park, MD: University of Maryland.

Donaldson, Jackie, Doneby Smith, Caine Francis, Alyson Waite, and Priya D'Souza
2006              Capital Black Belt Project: An Intervention. (Unpublished). College Park, MD: University of Maryland.

Freidenberg, Judith, Gail Thakur, Jackie Donaldson-Lopez, and Jenna Hall
2008               Perceived Inclusion of Contemporary Immigrants to Suburban U.S.: The Immigrant Life History Project. Paper presented at the Society for the Anthropology of North America/American Ethnological Society Conference, Wrightsville Beach, NC: April 3.

• Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA)
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• California State Rural Health Association (CSRHA)
• Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)
• Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)
• American Anthropological Association (AAA)
• National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA)