1. Catherine Byrd Callaway
1431 Jackson St. #507, Oakland CA
94612 (415) 866-4574 -
miss.callaway@gmail.com
Education:
UC Davis, B.S.: Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources, 2010
Universidad Autónoma de México, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlán,
Semester Abroad (via UC Davis), Fall 2009
Professional history:
Bikehub Bicycle Mechanic and Valet, July 2014-Present
• Engaging with customers, giving recommendations for maintenance and safe cycling
• Repairing bicycles, sales, opening and closing register
Suzanne Arca Design Maintenance Lead, June 2014-June 2014
• Maintaining high-end gardens, problem-solving in the field, scheduling and planning
• Keeping records, using forms, Microsoft Office suite
• Written and verbal communication with clients, responding to issues
• Coordinating projects with administration and Construction Lead, managing assistants
!ACE Tutoring Services Tutor in Math and Language Arts, March-June 2013
• Working with middle- and high-school kids from local public and charter schools to
improve test scores in their weakest subjects
Four Dimensions Landscape Co., Maintenenance Gardener, January 2013-June 2014
• Caring for high-end residential native-plant gardens throughout the East Bay
Fresh SPIN Farms, Farm Manager, 2011-2012
• Growing and marketing vegetable crops and flowers on a one-acre farm to be sold
through CSA program as well as directly marketed to restaurants and stores
CICEANA, A.C., Botanical Garden Project Leader, Mexico City, May to August 2011
• Maintaining green-roof gardens, helping to teach courses to public, preparing reports
All Access International Language Centre, English teacher, Mexico City, 2010-2011
• Fast-paced environment, teaching classes, developing material and lesson plans
UC Davis Botanical Conservatory Intern and Greenhouse Assistant, 2006 - 2008
• Greenhouse and landscaping tasks, leading tours of botanical collections
Ferris Lab, UC Davis Department of Nematology, Laboratory Assistant, 2007
• Assisting laboratory and field-based elements of research
USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository Assistant in grape collection, 2006
• Propagation and record keeping on collection of grape cultivars
UC Davis Goat Facility Intern, and assistant, 2006 – 2007
• Feeding and monitoring of newborn goat kids, feeding and milking of goats

2. Internship
Rancho Valenzuela/Del Rio Botanical, Ejido Agustina Ramirez, Sinaloa, Mexico, Winter 2008
• Assisting in mung beans for export to USA, including writing reports and acting as
liason and translator
• Assisting in animal production for local consumption
Community Service:
Davis Bike Collective Mechanic, Workshop Organizer/Instructor, and Secretary
2007-2009, and 2012
• Opening and closing the shop, teaching up to 40 participants in a shift, taking
donations, administering tools, teaching techniques, connecting people with resources
and answering the phone
• Attending twice-monthly consensus-based meetings and participating variously as
note-taker (in 2012 as Secretary), and facilitator.
• Teaching workshops open to the public and aimed at training new volunteers.
• Organizing and implementing a workshop to welcome women and transgender
people; to facilitate their participation in the shop and empower them to learn to fix
• their own bicycles and assist others in doing so. I trained two other women to
coordinate the class when I left Davis in 2009.
• Creating original educational material on the specific processes, tools and parts
involved in basic bike repair, all of which is still in use in the shop.
Languages:
Fluency in the Spanish language
Competence in the French language
References:
Doug Williams: Manager, Berkeley Bike Station:
(510) 326-2909 – doug@bikehub.com
Suzanne Arca: Principal, Suzanne Arca Design
(510)847-0311- Suzanne@suzannearcadesign.com
Ed Garrett: Former Owner, Fresh SPIN Farms
mensafarmer@technologist.com
Sarah McCullough: Former President, Davis Bike Collective
(530) 601-1149 – smcc@ucdavis.edu
Jose Leonides Sánchez González: Professor of Agricultural Engineering, UNAM
Cel. 011 (52 55) 5464 4258 Tel. 011 (52) 5876 3882 - joseleonides@yahoo.com
Hortencia Ortiz: Former Coordinator of Kids’ Classes, All Access Language Center
011 (52) 53 68 40 74 - hobeort@yahoo.com.mx
Ernesto Sandoval: Curator, UC Davis Botanical Conservatory
(530) 752-0569 - jesandoval@ucdavis.edu