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Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal

• Elevate is the only global network of funders focused on the wellbeing and rights of children and youth.
• Led the development of resources that shifted the philanthropic practice of funders giving <$1.15 bn per year and influenced philanthropic and bilateral donor policies
• Led research on child and youth participation, adultism, and trauma-informed philanthropy
• Co-designed with members learning journeys on trauma-informed philanthropy and MEL for systems change that shifted funder practice
• Drove 42% growth in network membership
• Significantly diversified organization membership and governance

London, United Kingdom

• Expertise:
• Developing, building, and leading partnerships, networks, and coalitions
• Field scoping and mapping
• Strategic planning
• Advocacy and communications strategy and planning
• Facilitation and meeting designClients included:

London, United Kingdom

With Executive Director, jointly leading a global partnership of more than 1,000 civil society organizations from over 95 countries committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfil their potential. Led organization through significant growth and change, establishing for the first time a management and team structure, suite of policies.

London

London, UK

London, United Kingdom

Bangkok, Thailand

• Provided strategic planning, communications and fundraising support to UNICEF country and regional offices for the Public Finance for Children Initiative, which mobilises budgets and public finance systems to meet the.
• Raised $450,000 for four Country Offices. Wrote country-specific and regional proposals; pitched to donors.
• Provided technical support for planning, communications and fundraising through missions to 7 countries (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines and Vietnam).
• Designed and conducted advocacy and communications workshops in 6 countries and at 2 regional training workshops.
• Wrote and pitched articles, blogs and other promotional materials; wrote case-book analysing approaches in 4 countries.

Designed and facilitated a 3-day convening to develop the strategy for a joint campaign on migrant rights with unions, businesses, civil society, the UN, and the government in Malaysia.

Caribbean

• Achieved lifelong dream: rehabilitated 35-year-old classic sailboat and circumnavigated Eastern Caribbean, sailing 6,000 miles in 12 countries.
• Created revenue-generating blog with over 46,000 unique visitors (avg. 1,700 per month) and 100,000 pageviews.
• Published 9 paid articles in leading sailing publications including Blue Water Sailing and Cruising World.

Washington, DC

• Managed operational and grantmaking activities of foundation-NGO initiative supporting more responsible U.S. global engagement through more effective and collaborative advocacy. Coordinated member foundations.
• Recruited 2 new foundation members and raised new funds for donors’ collaborative.
• Supervised annual award of $1.4 million in grants and the advocacy and grant-making activities of three staff.
• Successfully developed new organizational strategy after 2008 election focusing on administration access for network members; organized and led meetings with Deputy White House Chief of Staff, key members of the.

Washington, DC

• Developed and implemented operational activities strategy for Fund, which had previously restricted activities to grantmaking. Organized and led bi-annual conferences and trainings on messaging, new communications.
• Utilized network theory to build thriving network of foreign policy advocates, funders and experts; increased size of community more than six-fold in 18 months; designed and launched interactive community web portal.
• Led consultative process with community members to write unprecedented cross-issue letter to President-elect calling for specific policy changes in human rights, climate change, development and nuclear weapons. Unusual.

• Managed all external relations, including programs, foundation relations, communications, campaigns and advocacy. Coordinated work of 27 staff and all departments; led implementation of strategic plan. Served as a.
• Developed new programs and led a foundation outreach initiative that increased foundation support from less than $70,000 in small family foundation grants in FY2002 to over half a million dollars yearly by FY2006 from.
• Ensured strategic direction, effectiveness and work flow of organization growing from 11 to 27 staff in less than two years while maintaining an entrepreneurial, creative and inclusive work atmosphere.

Washington, DC

• Managed programs department, advocacy initiatives, external communications and government relations. Hired, supervised, coached, disciplined, and fired personnel. Developed and monitored budgets. Analyzed issues.
• Led coalition effort that achieved the U.S. signature of the International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty; reinvigorated and co-chaired Washington Working Group on the ICC.
• Developed and launched NGO coalitions on the Law of the Sea treaty, the Bolton nomination and effective peace operations.
• Created and led strategic communications initiatives involving multiple nonprofit stakeholders. Researched and wrote guide to speaking with Americans about the ICC and developed multimedia CD-ROM and website.
• Co-led 3-person management team that achieved strategic reorganization, rebranding and renaming of 55-year old nonprofit organization that subsequently doubled budget and staff size. Developed research-based strategic.
• Quoted in national and international newspapers, including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Financial Times. Appeared on TV and radio, including CNN International, BBC World News and numerous National.

Coordinated national research project on strengthening nonprofit advocacy and the development of online nonprofit policy and technology resource center. Supervised 2 staff.

Trained 100 grassroots and activist women on NGO strategies to influence the commission meeting. Drafted UN resolution on women and human settlements that was subsequently adopted by government delegates at the commission. Published article on women as the key to post-conflict reconstruction in Rwanda in an online book edited by the Journal of Humanitarian.

Tracked, researched and analyzed legislation threatening nonprofit advocacy rights; coordinated legislative coalitions. Coordinated national coalition of 300 nonprofits opposing the balanced budget amendment. Created fax and email distribution networks; wrote electronic alerts, web pages and information bulletins. Designed, created and maintained databases.

Coordinator, United Nations Preventive Diplomacy Campaign; Author, Briefing Book on UN Preventive Diplomacy. January-March: Interim Director of the International Criminal Court project.

Ma, International Peace And Conflict Resolution

Teaching Assistant; Concentrations: Gender, Africa. Thesis: UNHCR and Refugee Women in the Great Lakes Crisis.

Ba, Political Science

Minors: French, International Economics. Honors: Departmental Honors, Rhodes Scholarship semi-finalist, Pi Delta Phi National French Honor.