Claudia Williams Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

New York, Ny, Us

• Provide counsel to nonprofit organizations on planning, launching, and executing fundraising campaigns with a transformational impact.Clients include: • Good Shepherd Catholic Church • Potomac Conservancy• CalvertHealth • United Way of Central Maryland• KIPP Baltimore

Oakland, Ca, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Developed grantmaking strategies to support youth organizing and to end gender-based violence.• Collaborated with other funders to provide capacity building to grantees, to foster peer learning, and to increase aligned giving in the DC region.• Communicated key program updates to multiple stakeholders.• Represented the foundation in conferences, working groups, and briefings to advance racial and gender justice. • Authored blog posts, articles, case studies, issue briefs and other publications to advance the foundation’s thought leadership in philanthropy.• Contributed to overall program strategy by conducting landscape studies and translating findings into actionable next steps.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Researched and wrote a series of issue briefs on women and girls’ economic security in the Washington Region.• Conducted focus groups and in-depth interviews with over 50 young women of color, policymakers, philanthropists, service providers, and government officials to define the grantmaking strategy of the foundations’ Young Women’s Initiative and to draft its Blueprint for Action.• Conducted data collection and evaluation of the women’s and girls’ economic security portfolio to investigate the effectiveness of the foundation and grantees’ strategies. • Summarized lessons learned to support shaping of new investments and strategies.• Launched a participatory grantmaking fund with young women of color on both ends of the grantmaking process.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Developed STATA programming to analyze key indicators on the status of women and girls.• Estimated costs and benefits of proposed leave legislation for jurisdictions in the U.S. • Provided technical assistance to advocacy campaigns to achieve sustainable legislative wins. • Drafted section of chapters; created charts, figures, and maps for publications that asses how public policies impact women in the U.S.• Analyzed quantitative and qualitative data, conducted semi-structured interviews and coding to reveal insights that drive policy action.• Presented IWPR’s research to diverse audiences to inform public dialogue and shape public policies that improve women’s lives the U.S. • Contributed to fundraising, project development, and grant reporting to support operations at IWPR.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Received an award for promising scholars to conduct a research project on women’s economic security in the United States with mentorship from senior researchers at the Institute of Women’s Policy Research.

Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City, Mx

• Assisted with econometric and microdata analysis to produce academic papers on Mexican migration flows to the United States. • Coordinated seminars and events to increase the awareness, visibility, and revenue of the program.• Established a blog and an e-newsletter to grow the program’s profile and visibility, and to communicate research updates to different stakeholders. • Monitored policy related to U.S.-Mexico migration to support the development of research connected to policy interventions.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

• Promoted Mexican entrepreneurs interested in exporting their products to the city of San Antonio.• Translated documents from English to Spanish and vice versa.

• Helped with the organization of a major conference sponsored by USAID and the Organization of American States to improve the quality of journalism in Mexico.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Public Policy And Women’S Studies

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Economics

Visiting Student, Women'S Studies