Bryce Watson Email & Phone Number

Oakland, CA, US

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

UNLEASH Plus is an innovative 6-month social entrepreneurship incubator aimed at fostering and scaling impactful solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. UNLEASH Plus supports early-stage social entrepreneurs who have already built an initial solution and tested it with users but need access to the global networks, approaches, tools, and.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Supported the capture, design, and writing of over 35 D&G proposals in a variety of roles across local governance, civil society strengthening, and accountability.
• Provided technical assistance to over 20 D&G projects to implement political economy analyses, problem-driven iterative adaptation, people-centered justice (PCJ), and more.
• Contributed to the writing and dissemination of 17 technical pieces regarding D&G, including PCJ, thinking and working politically (TWP), and local governance.
• Organized 15 trainings, 3 brown bags, and 9 internal and external events on D&G technical approaches for project staff to improve D&G programming based on cross-project learning.
• Drafted the 2021 and 2022 annual strategic work plan and budgets of over $160,000 each.
• Led research efforts with USAID to gather lessons learned from Chemonics’ entire D&G portfolio to inform our approach to TWP.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• The Global Health Supply Chain - Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project in Nigeria provides procurement and supply management support and technical assistance to a wide variety of stakeholders throughout.
• Assisted in managing and forecasting our annual budget of over $250,000,000 and developing our annual work plan for 6 separate donors.
• Led a team of 7 to review 3,000 health supply deliveries, analyzing the challenges and needed improvements to data management, and summarized findings in a report to USAID.
• Wrote and managed cost-plus fixed fee contracts with key implementation partners including evaluating performance and reviewing monthly invoices and annual budgets.

Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

• Led the development and launch of Vize to create transparency and accountability in the labor market for low wage jobs in Tijuana, receiving over 3,000 reviews of working conditions.
• Developed the product, sales, and marketing strategies with rapid cycles of prototyping, user feedback, and quantitative analysis using agile project management methodologies.
• Managed a diverse team of 10 staff members in Austin, Texas and Tijuana, Mexico using weekly scrum meetings and monthly one on one check ins for performance evaluation.
• Participated in entrepreneurship incubators including 3 Day Startup, Silicon Valley Bank Trek, and Pioneer (placing in the top 2% of applicants out of over 500 applications).

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

I assisted Professor Andrew Natsios, former USAID Administrator and current Director of the Scowcroft Instiute, on a wide variety of projects including but not limited to, - Conducting research on USAID programs for an upcoming book on the history of the Agency- Editing and providing recommendations for the book- Gathering research on forced displacement.

Oakland, CA

LaborLink is an innovative technology allowing international companies to hear directly from their factory workers overseas. The workers simply call LaborLink's number and answer a quick survey about their working conditions. LaborLink then analyzes the data and makes it actionable. While social audit data is often inaccurate due to corruption and worker.

College Station, Texas, United States

The Center on Conflict and Development at Texas A&M University seeks to improve the effectiveness of development programs and policies for conflict-affected and fragile countries through multidisciplinary research and education. The Center uses science and technology to: reduce armed conflict, sustain families and communities during conflict, and assist.

San Francisco Bay Area

As an ambassador to FSD, I am using my experience founding SIID at Texas A&M University in order to create an implementations guide for other universities to create similar training programs on their campus. In addition, I am writing a proposal for an "FSD On-Campus" initiative in an attempt to spread SIID's model to other universities, supply FSD with.

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

Founded SIID, a year-long training program for undergraduate students in which 20 students will research, design, and implement their own international development project in one of ten developing communities around the world. Our mission is to implement sustainable localized solutions to systemic issues in the world’s most impoverished regions while.

San Diego, CA

FLE is a California-based nonprofit organization that builds tools to bring online learning resources to communities with limited, expensive, or no Internet bandwidth KA Lite, our open-source offline-installable Khan Academy platform, is already being used in over 150 countries, in contexts as varied as rural schools, orphanages, community centers, refugee.

Alexandria, VA

GCCA is an umbrella organization for four of the largest cold chain associations in the world. In total GCCA has more than 1300 member companies in 72 different countries, making them the dominant influence in the cold chain industry, providing networking opportunities, educational material, extensive industry analysis and much more. GCCA's goal is to lead.

San Francisco Bay Area

FSD achieves community-driven goals through asset-based development and international exchange in 10 sites in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. My accomplishments during this internship are listed below.- Reviewed and decided upon 5 international development projects that were to be implemented in 4 of FSD's locations around the world. - Conducted research.

Santa Rosa, CA

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Master’S Degree, Development Economics And International Development

I am currently pursuing a Master's degree in International Development and Economic Policy at the Bush School of Government and Public.

Bachelor’S Degree, International/Global Studies ; Economics ; Chinese, Senior

Activities and Societies: Student Initiative for International Development (SIID) Undergraduate Research Scholars Corps of Cadets-Army.

China Studies

Completed multiple undergraduate research projects including extensive qualitative research on migrant students in Beijing. Also completed.

Mandarin

Activities and Societies: Intensive Language Summer Program with CIEEGained 10 credits of language study in Mandarin as well as gained.