Irene S Leung Email & Phone Number

United States

Leadership and management__Re-designed a regional team structure to meet fundraising and grants management needs of four offices (Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Turlock) and the regional immigration program with funding largely from federal, state, and county/city agencies__Provided direct supervision of a regional team of four staff; hired and trained new grants staff; connected program staff with resources and trainers at IRC Headquarters.__Led the grants team to improve workflow with the regional Finance team and Headquarters' Resource Acquisition and Management unit and expanded training opportunities for all program staff__Represented IRC's interests at donor and partner meetings, especially during contract negotiationsFundraising and grants__Between FY22 and FY23, secured over $12M of single and multi-site awards from federal, state, and local agencies as well as foundations in collaboration with site directors, program leads, and technical advisors, covering programs ranging from refugee resettlement, services for asylees and foreign-born victims of crime, wraparound services for mental and physical health, employment and career development, microenterprise development and financial capabilities, early childhood and youth development, and immigration/naturalization __Managed a portfolio of over 40 grants for IRC Oakland, IRC San Jose, and the regional immigration program in collaboration with program leads and a Grants & Contracts Specialist

Provided nonprofit leaders a range of technical support and coaching, services range from strategic planning, proposal writing, donor reporting, partnership development, and developmental editing.__Espaço Feminista, Recife, Brazil__Botshelo Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa __Chinese Whispers, San Francisco__Creating Innovative Resources for Community Life and Education, Boston__U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington DC__Arquetopia, Puebla and Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico__Weaving Hands, Brooklyn__Perak Heritage Society, Ipoh, Malaysia__Khazanah Nasional Berhad and Reka Art Space, Penang, Malaysia__Institute of Cultural Enterprise, New York__Business Enterprise for Sustainable Travel, New York

Brooklyn, New York

Research and development, proposal writing, mid-term review on global framework on disaster risk reduction, gender assessment of urban agenda (Habitat III), best practices formulation, results based framework, tools development, etc. Topics include women and urbanization, disaster risk reduction/climate change adaptation, women's empowerment, safe cities, etc.

Managed a portfolio of 12-14 institutional grants in the Greater Mekong Subregion for environmental and human rights in coordination with the Mekong Regional Director and the Myanmar Program Director.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Designed and implemented research and M&E for programs supporting street-connected children and their families; programs range from alcohol recovery groups to livelihood support, transit centers, etc. in various field offices in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Indonesia. Ensured that baseline and endline assessments are designed and implemented to maximize adaptive learning.Served as lead researcher and focal point as a consortium partner (e.g. 3PC - Partnership Program for the Protection of Children funded by USAID and led by UNICEF, and USAID subgrant through Save the Children and co-led by R4D for an orphanage donor behavioral change campaign) in Cambodia.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

New York, New York

Living Arts City: Art and Urbanism in Phnom Penh and New YorkCoordinated collaboration between Cambodian Living Arts and Parsons' School of Constructed Environment on an initiative in the 2012-2013 academic year including collaborative interdisciplinary research, curriculum development, courses, and field-based studies. Two “book-end” events took place at The New School (April 6-7, 2013), and at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn (May 4, 2013). These events brought together artists, performers, curators, arts managers, scholars, and students in a series of facilitated discussions on how to make the arts central to a sustainable future in Cambodia.

Spring 2012 - "Creative Cities: Economies, Culture, and (Re) Education through the Arts"Fall 2012 - "Urban Core Project: Living Arts City"

Resource mapping, proposal development, editing for academic publication, and project management

New York, New York

New York, New York

Served as manager of National Coalition on Asia and International Education in the Schools under the Vice President of Education.

Msc, International Affairs -- Cities And Urbanization

Activities and Societies: Founding President -- Arts, Culture and Communities in International Development, 2004-5

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, History Of Art

Activities and Societies: Department representative of the Graduate Employees' Organization