Dixon is an independent grant writer and project manager, providing writing, research, and management services to not-for-profit organizations. She received her Master of Public Policy from the Bloustein School of Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where she specialized in environmental policy. Dixon worked at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development for seven years, where she was responsible for all aspects of program development and management, including research, data analysis, grant writing, and project administration. As Senior Project Manager, she coordinated the center’s work on brownfields, producing one of the nation’s first in-depth analyses of the role of brownfields redevelopment in job creation. In addition, Dixon was the co-author on the seminal Work Trends survey, a quarterly series that queries American workers on a wide range of workforce development issues, and a contributor to the Natural Assets Project, which examined the scope for reducing poverty through asset building in the form of environmental capital. Following her tenure at the Heldrich Center, Dixon first served as the Director of the LaGuardia Workforce1 Center for the City of New York, and then worked for the National Audubon Society. As the Center Director of Audubon Greenwich, Audubon’s oldest nature education center in the country, Dixon helped fulfill the Audubon mission of protecting birds, other wildlife, and their habitats by managing 650 acres of open space and delivering nature education programs to thousands of children and adults. By connecting people to nature and encouraging a culture of conservation, Dixon and her staff built the capacity of local residents to engage in community-based conservation and create healthy, sustainable bird-friendly communities.