About me

As an independent consultant, I have been gratified to work on a diversity of projects and programs aimed at strengthening institutions and channeling more and better funding to under-resourced and marginalized communities. I have helped establish new collaboratives, for example, to support LGBTQI organizing in West Africa and expand the narrative power of movements for gender justice around the world. I have supported funders and activists to share learning and strategize together about how to promote women’s land and property rights, strengthen disability inclusion or bolster communications for social change. Research projects have focused on the needs and priorities of the intersex human rights movement, the philanthropic response to “anti-gender” movements, and the push and pull factors that led hundreds of LGBTQI Ugandans to seek asylum in 2014-2015.

Before embarking on consulting in 2014, I was a senior program officer at American Jewish World Service (AJWS). I worked with colleagues based in Kenya, Liberia and Uganda and oversaw more than $1 million in grants to organizations defending the natural resource rights of rural communities and promoting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls, sex workers and LGBTQI people. Prior to that, I was a senior policy associate in AJWS’s advocacy department, where I coordinated campaigns on a variety of human rights and social justice issues. I hold a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University and a B.A. in International Politics from Oberlin College.

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