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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Lead PHR’s capacity development initiatives, focusing on the documentation of human rights abuses such as torture, conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), and attacks on health care. • Drives the organization’s use of innovative research methodologies, monitoring. evaluation, and learning efforts, and integrates public health approaches into PHR’s work.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Oversee a $2 million multi-country advocacy, capacity development, research, and innovation program to fight impunity for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV)in DRC, Kenya, Iraq, CAR, and Myanmar. Responsibilities include oversight of implementation of programmatic activities, budget and grant tracking, program strategy development, work planning, monitoring and evaluation, quality control, and team development, and management and mentorship of two staff. • Lead a multidisciplinary team to co-design, develop and pilot innovative human rights-driven tools to address CRSV, including MediCapt, an Android app for healthcare workers safely and securely collect forensic medical evidence of sexual violence, the Child Interview Recording Kit to collect the testimony of a child, and the ViVoMo voice modification system to enhance witness protection to empower survivors of human rights violations to testify in court. Develop trainings on using new technologies for healthcare workers in resource constrained environments.• Lead methodologically rigorous research projects on conflict related sexual violence for use by international mechanisms to hold perpetrators accountable.• Conceptualize and write program strategies for successful resource mobilization to donors.

Greater Boston Area

• Lead rights-based survivor-centered training program to increase local capacity to document forensic evidence of mass crimes of sexual and gender-based violence for doctors, nurses, community health workers, lab technicians, and allied legal, and law enforcement professionals in Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and Iraq. Supervised training of over 1,800 professionals.• Recruited and directed a pool of expert trainers, to conduct in-person trainings, webinars, and mentorship of medical, legal, and law enforcement professionals, including specialized training on forensic examination of child survivors of sexual violence and specialized approaches for working with pediatric populations, contributing to the landmark victory against perpetrators of CRSV in the case of child survivors in Kavumu, DRC. • Conceptualized and execute institutional capacity development initiative to assess and pilot strategies to improve post-rape care services at public healthcare institutions in partnerships with national, county-level, and local stakeholders, including Ministries of Health, locals health departments, and civil society. • Represent the organization at donor meetings and high-level technical collaborations with local and regional organizations engaging in medical treatment, legal service provision, human rights reporting, and advocacy.

Greater Boston Area

• Managed the curriculum development process for introductory, advanced, and training of trainer curriculums to train first responders on forensic documentation of sexual violence in challenging conflict settings.• Developed multimedia training support resources, including multilingual training videos and created practical post-training reference materials.• Oversaw and managed programmatic monitoring and evaluation efforts, including logical framework, indicator development, deployment of SMS-based training follow-up surveys, development of pre- and post-training assessments.

Greater Boston Area

• Manage bilateral health projects in Ethiopia, Liberia, Senegal, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Russia. Serve as focal point for communications between field office, donors, partners, and other relevant stakeholders. Responsible for financial and programmatic planning, budget tracking, financial and technical reporting and contractual adherence for projects valued over $100 million.• Coordinate, write and edit grant proposals to donors, over 40 proposals to date. Develop proposal elements including, budgets, international recruitment, technical proposals.• Provide support to diverse technical areas, including: qualitative data methods (research, evaluation and training), HIV and AIDS programming in key affected populations and, sexual and gender-based violence.

Ituri, North Kivu, And South Kivu, Democratic Republic Of Congo

• Taught a week-long training course on research ethics and qualitative research.• Coordinated and implemented a study using Photovoice and Community/ Body Mapping methodologies to examine programmatic challenges to reintegration of former child soldiers across 6 sites in 3 provinces across Eastern DRC • Conducted field training on research ethics and protocol and administered the collection of quantitative surveys concerning stigmatization of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.

Idjwi, South Kivu, Democratic Republic Of Congo / Boston, Ma, Usa

• Designed and conducted a qualitative study of sexual and gender-based violence with survivors of intimate partner violence as part of a student-led project at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.• Taught detailed month-long training course to local research team of 50 interviewers and field supervisors.• Managed the successful administration of 2100 questionnaires, following international guidelines, as well as focus group discussions, in-depth interviews and ethnographic data collection and analysis in a resource-poor setting.

Mombasa, Kenya

Mombasa, Kenya

• Provided support for qualitative study of the health related rights of commercial sex workers, including study design, data collection, and analysis. • Developed and guided focus group discussions and key informant interviews with sex workers and law enforcement to understand violence against sex workers committed by police personnel.• Participated in advocacy to support efforts to decriminalize and legalize sex work in Kenya.• Drafted donor reports, funding proposals, and needs assessments.

Camden, New Jersey, Usa

• Provided intensive case management to clients to help access health care, food security, and safe housing.• Worked closely with undocumented immigrants, victims of gun violence, people who use drugs, and underemployed individuals to secure appropriate housing to prevent homelessness.• Managed a federally-funded homelessness prevention grant of $100,000.

Tbilisi, Georgia

• Helped plan, execute and analyze an epidemiological study of cardiac disease and dysfunction.• Collected qualitative data and conducted a field analysis of perceptions of medical trust at Tbilisi’s Emergency Cardiology Center.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Global Health And Population

Activities and Societies: HSPH QSAThesis: “Every Home Has Its Secrets”: A Mixed-Methods Study of Intimate Partner Violence, Women’s.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Health And Society; African Studies

Thesis: "Cold Fevers": An Ethnographic Study of Malaria in Maasai Communities in Rift Valley Province, Kenya