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I am the coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative, a global coalition of 15 Partners, 7 Affiliated Networks, and 150+ Collaborators dedicated to advancing the land and resource rights of over 2 billion Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and rural women. Prior to helping create and establish RRI, I served as Senior Director of Programs at Forest Trends and Natural Resource Management Specialist at the World Bank, as well as worked as a consultant to the International Food Policy Institute, Save the Children Federation and the Inter-American Foundation. I have worked extensively in Haiti, Mexico and China and now supervise policy research, advocacy and policy engagement in Asia, Latin America and Africa. My research and publications have focused on forest tenure and policy, forest industry and trade, as well as the role of forests, communities and institutions in climate change. I hold a PhD in Forest Economics, an MA in Anthropology from the University of Minnesota, and a BS in Forestry from Humboldt State University.

Listed skills include Forest, Forest Management, Forest Carbon, Human Rights, and 40 others.