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Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Usa

Overall responsibility for US State Department-funded capacity building projects in Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe for technology nonprofit in Palo Alto, CA.Duties: Design, develop and implement capacity building programming on human rights documentation, advocacy, and technology for community organizations promoting LGBTI rights. Manage grantmaking, contracting, budgeting, and reporting; advise partner NGOs on the scope, nature, and goals of data collection; coordinate joint… Show more Overall responsibility for US State Department-funded capacity building projects in Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe for technology nonprofit in Palo Alto, CA.Duties: Design, develop and implement capacity building programming on human rights documentation, advocacy, and technology for community organizations promoting LGBTI rights. Manage grantmaking, contracting, budgeting, and reporting; advise partner NGOs on the scope, nature, and goals of data collection; coordinate joint research between partners; provide editorial support for publications; perform workshop planning, logistics, curriculum development, knowledge management, and advising on follow-on financing. Contribute blog posts and social media content to marketing and outreach efforts; act as liaison between users and developers. Show less

Greater New York City Area

Campaign work for UK-based extractive industry watchdog. Duties: Produced written brief on Dodd-Frank extractive sector transparency regulations, with an accompanying DC media strategy, and a brief on the use of anonymous shell companies, with a national media strategy and a media target brief. Drafted crib sheets with topline campaign messages in conversation with in-house analysts, identified news hooks, and translated research findings on complex regulatory affairs into… Show more Campaign work for UK-based extractive industry watchdog. Duties: Produced written brief on Dodd-Frank extractive sector transparency regulations, with an accompanying DC media strategy, and a brief on the use of anonymous shell companies, with a national media strategy and a media target brief. Drafted crib sheets with topline campaign messages in conversation with in-house analysts, identified news hooks, and translated research findings on complex regulatory affairs into quick-turnaround Op-Eds. Show less

Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria

Consulting for human rights training institute based in Botswana with offices in Kenya and Nigeria.Duties: Designed and delivered workshops on human rights research, reporting, advocacy, and technology for human rights defenders and student activists from 12 Sub-Saharan African countries, including workshop planning, leadership, logistics, curriculum design.

Chad; Sudan; U.S.A.

Staff researcher at New York headquarters of global human rights pressure group.Duties: Carried out fact-finding on paramilitary attacks against civilians and intercommunal violence in the Chad/Sudan/Central African Republic triborder, with additional research in Chad on arbitrary arrests, detention conditions, forced disappearances, mass and forced displacement, child soldiers, arms, extractives, corruption. Responsible for writing reports, press releases, and Op-Ed pieces; public speaking… Show more Staff researcher at New York headquarters of global human rights pressure group.Duties: Carried out fact-finding on paramilitary attacks against civilians and intercommunal violence in the Chad/Sudan/Central African Republic triborder, with additional research in Chad on arbitrary arrests, detention conditions, forced disappearances, mass and forced displacement, child soldiers, arms, extractives, corruption. Responsible for writing reports, press releases, and Op-Ed pieces; public speaking and statements to the media; donor cultivation; and high-level advocacy with officials from Chad, the US, France, the UN, the EU, et al. Show less

Chad, U.S.A.

Consulting for UK-based coalition of children’s rights organizations.Duties: Conducted primary research on the use and recruitment of child soldiers and command-and-control channels in Chad’s armed forces. Synthesized research findings in published documents and provided political analysis and policy guidance for internal use in written briefs related to long-term policy planning.

Afghanistan; Venezuela; Bolivia; U.S.A.

Freelance reporter for US newspaper.Duties: Conducted extensive reporting in Afghanistan on US military operations and Afghan civil society. My reporting on the first year of the US war in Afghanistan included embeds with a US Army quick reaction brigade at Bagram Air Base as well as a Special Forces A-team in Konduz, I exposed the abuse of a detainee by soldiers at Bagram and documented arms flows from the US military to Afghan paramilitary groups that came at the expense of US-backed… Show more Freelance reporter for US newspaper.Duties: Conducted extensive reporting in Afghanistan on US military operations and Afghan civil society. My reporting on the first year of the US war in Afghanistan included embeds with a US Army quick reaction brigade at Bagram Air Base as well as a Special Forces A-team in Konduz, I exposed the abuse of a detainee by soldiers at Bagram and documented arms flows from the US military to Afghan paramilitary groups that came at the expense of US-backed efforts to build a unified Afghan National Army.On assignment in Venezuela during the 2003 political crisis, I followed the fight for control of the country’s oil industry. In 2004 in Bolivia I reported on child labor and indigenous organizing in areas impacted by resource extraction. Show less

U.S.A.; Afghanistan

Editorial staff and researcher at publisher and public interest litigant in Beverly Hills, CA.Duties: Embedded with 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division to document US Army policies governing media access to combat operations and submit affidavits that formed the basis for Flynt v. Rumsfeld, a First Amendment civil suit argued before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.Managed opposition research campaigns during 1998 midterm elections… Show more Editorial staff and researcher at publisher and public interest litigant in Beverly Hills, CA.Duties: Embedded with 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division to document US Army policies governing media access to combat operations and submit affidavits that formed the basis for Flynt v. Rumsfeld, a First Amendment civil suit argued before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.Managed opposition research campaigns during 1998 midterm elections and 2000 presidential elections in the United States, with direct supervision of two full-time private investigators and budget tracking and reporting responsibilities.Edited feature articles. Reported on abusive working conditions in the adult film industry. Show less

U.S.A.

Residential staff at transitional housing facility for Skid Row homeless in Los Angeles.Duties: Provided direct services to chronic homeless and recently released felons, including social service support, literacy training, micro-industry programming. Extensive work developing service opportunities for the homeless in surrounding communities, including support to The Compton Cricket Club, an exhibition cricket team comprised of the homeless and at-risk youth in the City of Compton.

Maputo, Mozambique

Staff reporter at Mozambican government wire service operated by the Ministerio de Informacao. Duties: Reported on disarmament, demobilization, ceasefire violations by both sides, workings of Ceasefire Commission, National Elections Council, UN Operation in Mozambique (ONUMOZ); contributed daily articles, translated from Portuguese to English.

Master Of Fine Arts, Nonfiction Writing

Bachelor Of Arts, English