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Washington, DC, US

Set the overarching vision for gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) work at the Center in collaboration with gender team. Lead efforts to mainstream gender equality into CCP business practices, including hiring, promotion, supportive policies and anti-discrimination, ensuring connections with CCP’s Anti-Racism work. Support gender integration to.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Work closely with USAID to define high level strategy design and implementation for $24M global portfolio on family planning and reproductive health social and behavior change. Ensure work plan activities are of high technical quality, delivered on time and within budget, proactively identifying, communicating, and generating solutions for challenges as.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Supported the Project Director in overall management and leadership of the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3), a $150M USAID 5-year project on social and behavior change communication. Led the dissemination and utilization of key project SBCC outputs and approaches within the HC3 team and among HC3 partner organizations. Facilitated.

Baltimore, MD

As HC3's family planning team lead, managed $1M portfolio of activities, including: strategic planning and workplan development; designing capacity-building interventions and tools in social and behavior change communication; managing budgets and expenditures; monitoring progress and achievement of goals; writing technical materials and reports; reporting.

Baltimore, MD

Provided research support to SBCC programs on a variety of public health issues, including HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, family planning, nutrition and malaria:Designed qualitative and quantitative research tools; conducted literature reviews, co-authored numerous manuscripts for peer-review; and wrote briefs to translate technical research into.

New York, NY

Provided technical and programmatic support to UNFPA's global programs on HIV and young people, including development of technical documents; provision of technical assistance to field programs; coordination of the UN Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV and Young People; organization of advocacy events at major international conferences; oversight of.

Baltimore, MD

Managed a a behavior change communication initiative to reduce adolescent girls’ vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, including strategic planning; technical assistance to field programs; message development; intervention design; program management; and technical writing, including journal manuscripts, programatic tools, fact sheets, presentations.

Conducted gender-based policy analysis, especially on HIV and education, organized expert panels and advocacy events, authored reports and publications, drafted speeches and talking points, managed a technical assistance project for women's affairs ministries in Africa, and participated in UN task teams and working groups.

Cambridge, MA

• Conducted research on the documentation and treatment of survivors of sexual violence in conflict settings to be used by PHR to implement training programs on monitoring and prosecution.
• Monitored international cases of physicians who have been imprisoned for promoting human rights; writing case summaries and advocacy letters to governments and other stakeholders

Cambridge, MA

• Conducted policy research and analysis on poverty and social policy in China for use in a graduate course at the JFK School of Government.
• Drafted analytical summaries on critical issues and policy options for posting on the course website to be used by students in their research. Major areas covered included: measuring poverty; education; health.

Greater New York City Area

• Conducted research on population censuses submitted by all UN member states from 1985 to 2004 and analyzed metadata for reliability and consistency.
• Produced final report on countries and focus areas that required targeting and presented research findings to the Statistics Division.
• Participated in UN conferences and meetings on social development, human rights, the MDGs, and HIV/AIDS, to analyze the issues and understand UN policies and actions.

Administered a mediation case in the financial sector with over 150 claimants. Worked with a wide range of people including judges, lawyers and claimants.

Mhs, Health Communication

Coursework focused women’s health and behavior change communication. Final research paper: Community perspectives on girls’ vulnerability.

Education record

Executive education courses in strategic team leadership, management and business communications

Ma, East Asian Studies - Social Development

Activities and Societies: Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University 2003-2005: Full tuition and stipend awarded for promise of.

Ba, Chinese

Awarded the Chinese Book Prize 2001: Most distinguished candidate of University of London BA Chinese.

Certificate, Chinese Language