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South Africa

City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

* Oversee data protection and regulatory compliance* Lead cross-functional teams in donor and beneficiary relations, advocating for the end of hunger and food waste

San Francisco, Ca

* Recipient of Henry Nxumalo Foundation for Investigative Journalism, South Africa (2023)* Manage research staff, clients and budgets* Conduct research ethics reviews, stakeholder engagement, monitoring & evaluation* Los Angeles County Cancer Surveillance Program

* Oversaw User Experience Research of over 130 participants to evaluate California Cancer Registry data use among 8 NCI Cancer Centers. Redefining cancer and COVID patients as vulnerable populations.* Research resulted in shaping new cancer surveillance and data sharing opportunities between the State of CA and NCI Cancer Centers.* Developed research roadmap to include designing survey and questionnaires for cancer registrars, NCI Cancer Centers, and community programs to assess attitudes toward data collection, clinical trial data, real time data access and stakeholder engagement.* Program managed California state contract with Kaiser Permanente to ensure patient privacy, data integrity and qualitative and quantitative data outputs informing future breast cancer patient matching to clinical trials.

Menlo Park

*Delivered policy changes on FB's Community Standards and posts to be removed from platform*Organized research protocols drawing on UN Optional Protocols to develop FB policies*Drove investigations on illicit animal part sales and unlawful conduct and violence with cross functional teams to safeguard people and societies*Developed and implemented research protocols on FOSTA-SESTA and Latinx/Hispanic voter suppression

Emeritus in 2018. Promoted to Full Professor in 2012 and Tenured in 2007.*Developed and administered survey to over 200 participants, oversaw in-depth interviews and focus groups with article deliverable: “Latina Faculty: ¿Si se puede?” (2018)*Conducted ethnographic work in Mexico over 18 months and developed 10,000 person database to track immigrant settlement resulting in peer-reviewed book.

Faculty Of Law

*Research project on Refugees' Obtaining Documents.*NGO-Research Collaboration.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

*Migrant and refugee human rights and access to healthcare in South Africa.*Professor of the July School 2014 - The London School of Economics and Political Science and University of Cape Town, Politics and Economics of Refugees in Africa."

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Master’S Degree, Human Rights Law, Faculty Of Law

Master Of Science (M.Sc.)

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Latin American Studies