• Lead strategic work to translate the organization's commitments to intersectional feminism to concrete tools and sustained practice. • Help the organization to translate into concrete practice its strategic commitments to develop a feminist and anti-racist organizational culture by 2030.• Co-lead a cross-divisional network of 30 people advancing feminist principles and feminist justice. • Lead the "Men and Masculinities" group, facilitating 115 sessions for the past six years. • Provide leadership for Oxfam America’s Feminist and Gender Justice commitments, working closely with the GJIH Director and VP of Strategy and Operations to ensure convergence of priorities and strategic alignment.• Provide strategic advice on Gender Justice and inclusion in Strategic Geographies with a focus on Puerto Rico and Latin America • Co-lead the organization-wide learning agenda for Oxfam America staff with a focus on intersectionality, gender justice, masculinity, and decoloniality. • Serve as a member of the Advisory Council of MenCare, the global campaign on fatherhood.

• Provided technical advice on how to incorporate gender justice in projects for thematic areas, and teams in Oxfam America and countries where Oxfam America has investments.• Developed a robust offer of training and learning opportunities for Oxfam America staff in DC and Boston on Gender Justice and Social Justice issues such as race and intersectionality. • Spearheaded an internal advocacy campaign to improve the organization's parental leave policies, resulting in the change of Oxfam America's policy from 25 days fully paid to 12 weeks and developing with a group of feminist advocates a Global Policy on Parental Leave for the Oxfam Confederation. Enhance internal systems and processes as well as people’s abilities for advancing Gender Justice at OUS, including goal development, strategy development, and dashboards to measure efficiency. • Managed the implementation of the Gender Action Learning (GAL) process, a priority project involving 35 individuals and half of the senior leadership team for an 18-month project to transform power and gender dynamics at Oxfam America. • Co-led and advised on matters related to working with men and boys at Oxfam America and confederation level, including representing Oxfam as a Steering Committee member for Men Care. • Developed and refined a gender marker for Oxfam America to assess how and to what extent gender is incorporated in grant proposals, concept notes to donors and sub-grants. As a result of this work, senior management has set the goal to decrease gender blind grants to 10%.

• Advised and led integration of feminist approach and feminist values into the processes, outputs and expected outcomes derived from the Oxfam America ten year Strategic Framework.• Engaged with multiple layers of the organization from Senior Management to junior staff to deeply listen their concerns, ideas and hopes in the process, generating trust and buy in for the implementation of the work. • Co-led the development of a comprehensive strategy to define how and when to engage staff in the Strategy Development process• Ran eight sessions to explore future scenarios for Oxfam using thinking circle methodology• Advised team leads on sensitive issues around the strategy, including how to present key information and how to bring intention and coherence to our gender justice work.• Co-created the strategy to engage Women’s Right Organizations (WROs) and Gender Interested Organizations (GIOs) as part of the strategy process• Provided high level project management support to team to assure team’s approach translate feminist principles into action.

• Led a cross-organizational network of 46 gender justice change agents inside Oxfam America (Gender Resource Group and Gender Focal Points) to translate into action our gender justice commitments.• Led research projects to identify how and to what extent Oxfam America integrates gender into its work, from finance and fundraising to programs and the mapping of Oxfam's engagement of men and boys across the confederation, developing the first global baseline for this work. • Advised the Humanitarian Theme on gender integration in their portfolio of work such as Local Humanitarian Leadership and Resilience. • Provided technical support on gender and program quality to thematic and functional areas across Oxfam America as well as to Executing Affiliates (Sudan, Senegal, Peru, El Salvador).• Led the work on engaging men and boys at Oxfam America as part of our internal culture and programmatic approach, including networking and building alliances with key external actors. • Worked with Oxfam affiliates across the world on projects related to research on men and boys, capacity building on gender for the confederation, and confederation-wide spaces on gender.

• Advised Oxfam’s CEO/President Abby Maxman on the internal and external response during the Haiti safeguarding crisis. • Wrote internal communications and memos to inform senior teams and Oxfam staff regarding the concrete actions taken by the Executive Office to address key priorities identified during the crisis. • Managed a one-time process to bring an external person to collect information on Oxfam staff experiences with bullying and harassment. In 3 weeks, 40 staff participated in safe spaces in Boston and DC. The result was a report assessing Oxfam's internal and organizational culture with specific recommendations that were implemented in the following years. • Engaged with OUS staff at different levels to understand better the expectations and concerns on how to create a safe and inclusive environment, and provide advice to the CEO accordingly.

• Managed project on Gender Justice seeking to assess changes in gender practices and behaviors in Ghana, Senegal, Cambodia, and Vietnam by using the Gender Action Learning (GAL) process and the most significant change (MSC) methodology. This work is performed in liaison with Gender @t Work. • Managed from inception two projects developing e-courses for training Oxfam staff globally on Gender Justice issues: 1. Gender Justice: An introduction (2015-2017)• Managed the successful conversion of the English version into French, Spanish, and Arabic working independently in a multicultural environment and virtual teams.2. Gender and Power (2016-2017)• Led the development of this course from inception to final launch as project manager and content lead on issues around privilege and intersectionality.

• Create, launch, and lead an online advocacy initiative challenging prevailing harmful gender roles and norms that limit our experience in life. Today, DGR has over 3,800 followers on Facebook. • Mentor 12 young professionals from across the world who volunteered for DGR as a way to learn about gender issues, feminisms, intersectionality, and the challenges to defy traditional masculinity. • Developed and launched the campaign “Redefining #ManUp” to spark a conversation about the harmful elements of “Man Up”. We developed a design, pictures, and a t-shirt to spread the message.• Presented own research paper titled “What does it mean to be a man today?” at the American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA) annual conference, at Michigan University. • International public speaking on gender issues: 1. TEDx Talk: “What it means to be a man today in the struggle for achieving gender equality”2. Harvard Humanitarian Initiative: “Gender, masculinities, and humanitarian work” 3. Harvard School of Graduate Education: “Gender and education in Latin America”4. Oxfam America: “Gender, Manhood, and Masculinities” and “Men at the gender table?”5. The Fletcher School - Gender Conference: “The role of men in gender issues”6. Emerson College: “Exploring gender issues and politics in Latin America”7. American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA): “What does it mean to be a man today?” 8. Respect Jamaica: “101 - Unwrapping gender”9. Fundación Sánitas: presentations on “Gender 102: expression, identity, and masculinities”10. Universidad Externado de Colombia: taught a two-hour class on “Gender 101”11. Training for SoftServe In " The role of men in gender justice"12. Master presentation - Gender Equality. Client, Coomeva Colombia.

I am a communicator for social change. I challenge power inequalities. My objective is to make visible how gender shapes our experience in life as individuals, communities, and societies. Since 2014, I have written over 15 articles talking about personal reflections on masculinity and manhood, stories on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and inviting readers to challenge harmful, outdated gender roles and norms. As Words in the Bucket, I believe in raising awareness, informing people, letting them participate and share their opinions as a fundamental basis for change.

• Provided in-depth technical advice on how to incorporate purposefully rural men in an innovative program aiming to empower economically women in rural areas of Guatemala. Project: Women in Small Enterprise (WISE).• Develop approaches and activities for developing a toolkit on how to empower men and engage women in discussing gender issues such as household chores, caregiving, and decision-making processes.

•Seasoned experience working successfully in diplomatic and political engagement in highly volatile contexts with high levels of uncertainty. • Managed teams of observers, led international teams, and served as international observer in 20 elections in Costa Rica (4), Haiti (2), El Salvador (2), Paraguay (2), Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador.

• Managed and implemented projects providing technical cooperation to Board of Elections in Guatemala, Bolivia and Argentina aiming to protect citizen’s right to vote in upcoming elections. • Led new business development strategy by designing DECO’s main multi-year program, composed by 14 new projects, based on data analysis and needs-based assessments performed.• Wrote proposals, projects, reports and presentations regarding OAS technical cooperation work.

Gender and Political Financing Specialist • Conduct analytic research on women’s political participation focusing on gender and political financing, gender and access to media, and gender quotas in the region. • Present research outputs on women’s political participation on international conferences. • Manage a regional project on developing a political financing toolkit with a gender perspective targeting Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) in Latin America and the Caribbean.OAS Electoral Observation Missions (OAS/EOMs) General Coordinator - Presidential Election, Costa Rica (2014) • Coordinated a team of 30+ on technical, logistical and operational matters.• Reviewed technical analysis on gender matters and political financing produced by OAS team.• Created networks with local relevant political stakeholders to enhance OAS Mission’s outreach.Gender Specialist - Paraguay (2013) • Formulated public policy recommendations for the EOM’s Chief on how to increase women’s political participation in Paraguay. • Produced technical reports, briefs and presentations with political assertiveness on the current state of women’s political participation in the country, as well as policy recommendations. • Engaged directly on behalf of the EOMs with high level officials from Political Parties, Government, Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs), and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).Political Financing Specialist - Nicaragua, Ecuador and Honduras (2012-2013)• Formulate specific public policy recommendations for the EOM’s Chief on how to increase equity and transparency on political financing in the three countries observed.

• Developed Promundo's strategy to work in Honduras and Guatemala. As a result of this work, Promundo decided to hire staff to work directly in Central America. • Performed two field assessments in Guatemala and Honduras aiming to build critical partnerships with potential donors and partners working on gender and masculinities in Central America.

The Committee on Admissions and Scholarships awards Board of Overseers Scholarships to the most outstanding Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) and MA candidates each year. The MALD program enrolls over 180 of the top students from more than 80 countrie every year.

• Conducted in-country case study analyzing the relationship between international and national disaster management systems in Colombia. Journal version published in Disaster Journal (2012). • Interviewed seventeen high level key players in the disaster management field from the United Nations (UN), Colombian Foreign Affairs Ministry, National, and International Organizations.

• Conducted independent evaluation for the Agricultural for Needs (A4N) regional project focused on providing agricultural inputs to farmers and supporting women savings groups in rural areas.• Formulated programmatic recommendations on how to deliver agricultural inputs, create revolving funds, and enhance its microfinance and women savings groups’ strategies.

• Managed Our Border-Nuestra Frontera bi-national project (USD $1.2 MM) focused on economic and community development between the Dominican Republic and Haiti.• Monitored programmatic progress on activities and indicators through constant visits to implementation sites, close work with project partners and community leaders. • Oversaw 17 consultants in 8 border locations implementing direct technical assistance and research for project partners on community development, business opportunities and livelihoods. • Persuaded Haitian and Dominican ranchers and fisherman living on neighbor areas of the border to work together on improving their businesses and create a shared vision of livelihoods.

• Assessed the impact of the disaster on the execution of the Our Border project one week after the earthquake. Presented program design changes and new programmatic strategy to the IDB based on assessment. All changes suggested to donors were approved and implemented successfully.

• Organized and conducted 20+ trainings on project management for 15 Dominican local NGOs• Supervised and mentored 17 interns and 3 staff members assigned to the project management team.• Supported project design, project proposal writing, and project monitoring to country Director on projects presented to USAID, the European Union, and Canada.

• Provided support on project design, project proposals and project monitoring to Country Director. • Organized and conducted 20+ trainings on project management for 15 Dominican local NGOs.• Supervised and mentored 17 interns and 3 staff members assigned to project management team.

• Developed financial models for bidding on governmental infrastructure concession projects.• Developed reports on market liquidity to inform the issuing of debt instruments for clients.