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United States

• Innovation: Established a global network of experts with intersecting identities of marginalization to provide decolonial analyses of organizational policy, practices, & culture with a focus on elevating sidelined.
• Thought Leadership: Serve as a task-force member of the UN Anti-Racism & Decoloniality Network; co-writing the network’s flagship report on decolonizing the UN system.
• Partnership Development: Spearheading engagement with over 200 DEI/anti-racism/ decolonial practitioners to establish a network to share ideas & serve as a space of renewal.

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• Develop and implement new human resources policies, practices, and procedures to enable a more inclusive, anti-racist, and diverse work environment throughout the UN system
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the UN Anti-Racism Task Force's policy and practice recommendations for the UN Secretary-General
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders in the areas of learning and development, talent management, recruitment, HR data analytics to better embed an anti-racist focus in talent outreach and management
• Plan outreach activities - including training workshops, and panel discussions - related to racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Assess initiatives, programs and campaigns to determine success, outcomes, and lessons learned

• Co-founded IRC’s largest staff initiative, the GARD Network - a 350+ member, staff-led global community to address structural oppression, racism, and coloniality in IRC and the humanitarian aid sector.
• Co-established IRC’s first DEI Council, and co-wrote the Council’s charter. Collaborating with over 30 ERGs and affinity groups to provide key recommendations to various IRC stakeholders and to develop community-based.
• Spearheaded a theory of change agenda based on organizational analysis of power, transparency, and accountability of a major i-NGO with over 14,000 staff members with localization requirements spanning 40+ countries.
• Coordinated hundreds of front-line staff and client voices to create IRC’s first comprehensive roadmap, with 52 action items necessary to develop an organizational structure and culture committed to diversity, equity.
• Liaised with a cross-cutting team, including HR, Programming, Operations, Finance, Evaluation, Legal, Staff/ Client Representative Groups, and IRC leadership to support the implementation of DEI action plans and metrics.
• Established a long-term learning and exchange forum for staff to deepen understanding of anti-racism, systemic oppression, DEI, marginalization, power imbalance, white-supremacy & decoloniality.

Greater New York City Area

• Provided project team oversight, programmatic management, compliance analysis, and financial review of 5 violence prevention focused grants spanning 12 countries and totaling over $5 million. Areas of focus include.
• Managed all forward-facing donor communications, including the production of quarterly & annual project reports to demonstrate project development measured against baseline metrics.

Greater New York City Area

• Project Management: Provided operational management for 7 UN projects focused on poverty alleviation & empowerment of marginalized communities, totaling more than $80 million; Administered over 600 financial contracts.
• Partnership Development: Managed global partnerships and served as a liaison for the UN system to over 900 internal & external stakeholders, including UN agencies & missions, governments, (i)NGOs, student groups.
• Human Resources Design: Administered over 140 staff & consultant recruitments, analyzed gender balance to develop a metrics and implementation system to increase management-level female staff representation by 20% to.

Greater New York City Area

• Launched and operated an African inspired fashion brand featured in Vogue and Elle
• Managed a 20-person design, operations, and marketing team based in Accra, Ghana & NYC, including 12 Accra-based female tailors to center economic development of marginalized communities
• Produced 30 runway shows and press events in NYC, LA, Accra, Paris, and Amsterdam

Master'S Degree, International Relations And Affairs

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology