Climate Grant Tracker
Reduced reporting delays by restructuring how a five-person grant team tracked tasks, deadlines, and owner handoffs. Built the system in Airtable with automated reminders and a shared status view.
AirtableProcess designResearch
Climate & Civic Operations
Translating messy systems into calm, useful workflows.
Elena helps civic and climate organizations replace fragmented processes with clear operating systems. Her work blends service design, stakeholder research, and on-the-ground implementation to make programs actually run the way they were designed to.
Atlanta, GA · Open to operations and strategy rolesElena Park, Climate Operations Fellow
6Projects
3Sectors
2Teams led
Selected projects
Work that speaks
for itself.
Each project below represents a distinct problem, a clear contribution, and a measurable result.
Food Access Map
Built a public-facing resource directory through community interviews and usability testing with residents. Mapped 42 food access resources and partnered with two local agencies to keep the data current.
GISStakeholder interviews
Operations Playbook
Documented recurring workflows so that a 12-person volunteer team could onboard independently. Reduced the time from first shift to full productivity by two weeks and eliminated five recurring bottlenecks.
DocumentationFacilitation
"Elena brings order to complex work without losing sight of the people the system needs to serve. She asks the right questions before she starts building anything."
Dr. Marcus Webb, Program Director · Civic Climate Lab
About
Systems thinker, people-first.
Service design
Research
Facilitation
Documentation
Airtable
Data storytelling
Stakeholder interviews
Strategic planning
I'm a systems-minded strategist with hands-on experience in climate nonprofits, campus operations, and public-sector research. I got into this work because I kept seeing programs that had the right values and the wrong infrastructure, the mission was clear but the operations weren't built to support it.
I care about making it easier for mission-driven teams to do their actual work. That usually means understanding the real process first, not the process that's written down, and then building something that fits how people actually operate.
Education
BA in Public Policy & Sociology
Georgia State University · Class of 2025 · Dean's List, Service Learning Scholar
Experience
Where the work
was done.
2025 – Present
Operations Fellow
Civic Climate Lab
Built grant tracking and reporting systems for a five-person team, facilitated cross-functional workflow reviews, and documented repeatable processes that reduced onboarding time for new program staff.
2024 – 2025
Program Research Assistant
City Food Collaborative
Synthesized community interviews and mapped service gaps across six neighborhood programs. Findings informed a $220K service expansion and a new intake process still in use.
2023
Student Government Operations Coordinator
Georgia State University
Rebuilt the event permitting and budget request process for 40+ student organizations. Reduced average approval time from 11 days to 4.
Get in touch
Available for operations and strategy roles starting summer 2025.
Especially interested in climate, civic tech, public health, and mission-driven organizations.