Hillary Chutter-Ames Email & Phone Number

Montpelier, Vt, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

District Of Columbia, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

Chicago, Il

Greater Chicago Area

· Editor-in-Chief, Northwestern University Law Review· Order of the Coif

Lome, Togo

• Project Management: Managed USAID’s West African Food Security Partnership (WAFSP) projects for Togo, including implementing national workshops and conferences, managing and reviewing small grants and technical exchanges, developing monitoring and evaluation mechanisms and campaigns and training volunteers in food security and monitoring and evaluation. • Monitoring and Evaluation: Designed 3 monitoring and evaluation campaigns for national food security trainings, including developing follow-up surveys, designing communication strategies and analyzing data for compilation in reports. Managed data collection and filing systems to track progress towards country indicator targets. Analyzed and compiled data for submission of Peace Corps Togo’s quarterly and annual reports for the West Africa Food Security Partnership. • Programming and Training: Implemented six national food security workshops training a total of 129 host country nationals on maternal health rabbit husbandry, permagardening, child nutrition and value addition. The nutrition trainings reached 83 children under-five. Compiled training reports highlighting lessons learned and best practices to improve institutional memory.• Small Grants: Reviewed and approved 12 USAID small grant proposals. Created a new data collection protocol to ensure consistency in the collection of data collection tools for food security small grants. Created an index of all WAFSP small grants from 2012-2015 to compile a resource of lessons learned and best practices to improve institutional memory.• Networking: Facilitated 13 technical exchanges to network host country nationals with local experts for training on topics including rabbit husbandry and rice cultivation. • Training: Planned and facilitated sessions on the technical aspects of food security concepts and monitoring and evaluation, training a total of 89 Peace Corps volunteers at pre-service and in-service trainings.

Datcha, Togo

• Managed a small grant from USAID's West African Food Security Partnership (WAFSP) to support the establishment of a school garden at the middle/high school. Trained 45 students and 3 teachers in nutrition and improved gardening techniques. Managed the grant budget, developed and executed monitoring and evaluation plan to meet project objectives.• Co-organized the Femmes Contre la Faim (Women Against Hunger) Conference, funded by a grant from USAID/WAFSP. The conference trained 11 women and 12 volunteer partners in food security topics including gardening and food transformation in addition to hygiene and sanitation and child and maternal health. Participants trained 463 people in 11 different communities in child and maternal health, gardening, food transformation and hygiene and sanitation, in addition to planting over 600 trees.• Co-directed the national youth environmental camp, Camp ECO-Action, funded by a small grant from USAID/ WAFSP. Developed and executed the monitoring and evaluation campaign and trained 10 volunteers and host-country partners in survey methods and monitoring and evaluation. This campaign showed that after the 2014 camp, 29 participants trained a total of 1078 people in 28 communities across Togo. They planted over 400 trees, started 16 gardens and built 104 improved cookstoves to improve family food security. • Coordinated programming and monitoring and evaluation for the national Women's Wellness and Empowerment Conference (WWEC). Developed conference programming, developed and organized pre-conference surveys and post-conference interviews, as well as organized and facilitated conference training of trainers for 12 host-country national and volunteer trainers. The conference trained 30 women in women’s rights, reproductive health, child and maternal health, nutrition and hygiene and sanitation. These women returned to their communities to train 4339 people on these topics in the 3 months following the conference.

Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt

• Coding research work on nonviolent and violent social movements for Professor Orion Lewis and The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) Data Project. • Focused research on protest movements in Russia 2011-2013.

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Researched Russian official policy regarding the Arctic, including Arctic governance, impact on indigenous peoples and environmental policy.• Conducted research in Russian and English. • Produced two analysis papers of Russian Arctic policy and trends in Arctic governance for use in determining strategic directions for the MacArthur Foundation in Russia. • Edited articles and productions in English for office staff.

Middlebury College Admissions, Middlebury, Vt

Maintained database for over 500 college fair invitations and attendeesCommunicated with alumni and counselors in order to coordinate attendance at fairs in the US and abroadProcessed mail, answered phones, and performed computer tasks

Doctor Of Law - Jd

Activities and Societies: Northwestern University Law Review, Public Interest Law Group, Disability Law Society

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Russian And Political Science, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Student Government Association Institutional Diversity Committee (Chair 2012-2013), Service Cluster Board.

Middlebury College Study Abroad Program, Russian Language And Literature; Russian Politics

Activities and Societies: Moscow State University Women's SoccerCourses included Advanced Russian Grammar, Contemporary Russian Politics.

Development Project Management Institute, Certificate In Development Project Management

DPMI participants develop the skills needed to design and monitor a basic development project. Specifically, participants learn to conduct.