Cheyenne Nolen

I've been working in the government environmental field officially for about 8 years, with additional volunteer history before that. My current position is QAQC Coordinator for the Air Monitoring Program at Pinellas County, where I've been for over 5 years. On a typical day, I handle data review and validation, ensure that field teams understand what is required to maintain compliance with all procedures and practices for collecting data, and address issues as they come up when coordinating with our own field staff and other counties like Hillsborough County, where we do some analysis for them and for us regarding our toxics program. I also handle correspondence with DEP, especially regarding making sure that forms, SOPs, and quality assurance project plans are reviewed and revised as needed. I'm not necessarily interested in the government field itself, but I'm interested in public service and ways to help the community. Environmental work is just more so the environment I was raised and grew up in, and I do find it important. I focus more on public health aspects, which is why I appreciate that there's some overlap with air monitoring, as we're obviously looking out for the health and well-being of the air we breathe for our community. Really, I'm just looking for any way that I can find to utilize my degrees to help the public, whether it's government or not. Beyond my government work, I'm also a self-published fiction author. I'm an avid lifetime reader, so I wanted to have my hand at being able to write some of the content that I enjoy reading so much. It's just always been something I wanted to get myself to at least try my hand at. I published my first book, The Physicist, in December of last year through Draft2Digital which works with other publishing houses, as well as through kindle, so it's available on e-book anywhere and published to print anywhere. I also did a small self-help financial book with some basic guidance when it comes to personal finance, and I'm currently working on a crime fiction book that should be released later this year.