Leads comprehensive evaluation projects for the Office of Sexuality, Gender, and Violence within the Center for Healthy Communities for clients including the Michigan Organization For Adolescent Sexual Health, and the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services, among others.Designs, implements, and manages large-scale evaluation projects, utilizing qualitative and quantitative research methods to assess program effectiveness and impact.Analyzes data and synthesizes findings into actionable insights and comprehensive reports for stakeholders, ensuring clarity and accessibilityFacilitates strategic collaboration and capacity building with cross-functional teams and provides training to staff and partners on evaluation best practices and data analysis techniques.

* Led qualitative research and evaluation projects for philanthropic and non-profit clients* Coached staff on qualitative research skills including data collection, analysis, and dissemination* Authored literature review on preterm birth for Black birthing people and the impact of holistic prenatal support

• Provided strategic and technical support to country management teams for community-based reproductive health programs in underserved communities in Ghana, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Turkey• Led routine review of program deliverables and facilitated data-driven program quality improvement processes• Facilitated integration of abortion-related topics into existing unintended pregnancy prevention programs through capacity building workshops and use of data to monitor program progress, resulting in increased access • Developed and implemented client-centered reproductive health training curriculum for peer educators• Created job aides for community health workers to provide comprehensive contraceptive counseling• Oversaw internal and external reporting of program deliverables• Launched mentorship initiative for peer educators resulting in increased quality of counseling

• Led data cleaning, management, analysis, interpretation, and report writing on a reproductive empowerment qualitative study in Zambia• Developed protocol to test reproductive empowerment scale in Kenya• Designed qualitative evaluation tools for a social accountability program in Tanzania• Co-authored evaluation report and dissemination materials for a USAID–funded project on gender inclusion and social accountability in Nepal

• Gathered, analyzed, and disseminated findings from community-based programming in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to distill best practices and lessons learned• Provided technical support to community-based organizations to improve access to medical abortion in rural Tanzania through a harm reduction approach• Designed and managed performance evaluation of Youth Advisory Board initiative in Ghana, including design, data collection, report writing, and dissemination• Led design and protocol development for process evaluation examining the influence of social behavior change activities on contraceptive and safe abortion care in Ethiopia• Standardized guidance for conducting community-based needs assessments to inform social behavior change programs

• Collaborated with Ghana and Sierra Leone in-country teams to manage research, monitoring, and evaluation activities for programs reduce unsafe abortion and increase family planning access.• Developed qualitative and quantitative tools, and data analysis for evaluation of a comprehensive abortion care intervention with private midwives in Uganda as well as community baseline assessments in Ghana and South Africa• Created data dissemination materials including fact sheets, presentations, manuscripts, and reports in order to communicate key findings from research projects, project evaluations, and program data with various stakeholders• Acted as monitoring and evaluation technical lead on proposal development • Analyzed routine data for donor reports and proposals• Managed research, monitoring and evaluation support to South Africa program from 2012-2014.• Developed global guidance on the use of qualitative participatory methods to identify effective approaches for program design, monitoring and evaluation through review of existing data and analysis of participatory approaches • Analyzed data and produced report and manuscript on the burden and cost of unsafe abortion in Sierra Leone

• Collaborated with project monitoring and evaluation team to identify, collect and organize outcomes of a 32-country program aimed at building the sustainable capacity of governments to identify, collect and utilize health data• Developed 14 new indicators for adolescent reproductive health programs for online database of reproductive health indicators with the Population and Reproductive Health project

• Supervised and coordinated international internship program focused on sustainable development. • Identified specific internship opportunities with local community-based organizations and matched them with skilled interns• Trained interns in cultural integration, sustainable development, proposal writing, fundraising, and working with partner organizations to build capacities on proposal writing and monitoring and evaluation. • Conducted evaluation of impact and sustainability of projects implemented by previous interns.

• Managed special events including event committees, promotional and fundraising solicitations and coordination of multiple vendors to insure successful events for women's organizations in Chicago

Coordinated all resource development activities, maintained donor contacts, authored grant proposals and reports, cultivated new donors, worked with staff to monitor program progress, assisted with implementation of donor database, streamlined organization contacts, served on strategic planning committee, assisted conference director and co-presidents in all aspects of national women’s business conference, conceived and coordinated an organization-wide image revitalization project, conducted feasibility study on international women's entrepreneurship initiative, researched legislative issues effecting women’s economic empowerment and reproductive health and lobbied on their behalf.