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Beth Fascitelli Beth Fascitelli is the Program Coordinator/Office Manager at The Keystone Center (www.keystone.org), which she joined in October 2006. Working in Keystone's DC office, she provides administrative support, meeting planning and documentation, and program assistance for multi-stakeholder dialogue initiatives under The Center for Science and Public Policy. She also collaborates with senior facilitators on project strategy and logistics. Before joining Keystone, Beth completed an M.I.A. at Columbia University's School for International and Public Affairs (SIPA), concentrating in Human Rights, Conflict and Corporate Development. While at SIPA, she became engaged in the issue of oil-related conflict in the Niger Delta, and spent a summer in Nigeria with a grassroots NGO called the Centre for Social and Corporate Responsibility. Beth also worked as a community organizer for a congregation-based organization in central Florida; she spearheaded a multi-stakeholder public health campaign and worked to engage Spanish-speaking immigrants in the organization's initiatives. With a passion for travel, Beth lived for 18 months in Thailand, where she taught university English, interned with a grassroots community development NGO and was a participant-observer in a village-based struggle against dam-construction on Thailand's Mun River. Having done field research in a Mayan village in Mexico, Beth completed an undergraduate thesis and received a B.A. in anthropology and English from Amherst College in 1999. She is New York State certified in community mediation, speaks Spanish and enjoys running, hiking and spirituality. |