Experience

Training and Education Specialist Jan 2020-Present

DC SAFE

• Works collaboratively to develop a client experience survey focused on clients’ interactions with agencies in the civil and criminal justice systems, as well as social services agencies.

• Enhances system reform advocacy recommendations by conducting best practices research about survivor’s rights and access to crime victims’ compensation programs across the 51 US states.

• Improves organizational performance by developing materials, including two resource directories with 170 contacts and 30 one-pager handouts. Reviews existing materials such as two manuals and ten presentations and makes their language gender inclusive.

• Delivers a presentation hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank about adaptation strategies for domestic violence service providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gender-Mainstreaming and Business Development Consultant Feb-March 2020

Equipe de Conservação da Amazônia (Amazon Conservation Team)

• Used extensive knowledge of gender and international development to critically review and edit Ecam's project proposal for CO-IMPACT’s Round Three Grant Application, strengthening the final output.

Researcher Jan 2019 – Oct 2019

Equipe de Conservação da Amazônia (Amazon Conservation Team)

• Designed and applied a survey questionnaire and an interview scrip in communities in the Calha Norte area in the Brazilian state of Pará, in the Amazon region, in order to gage the possible impact of women’s organizing in associations on gender-based violence.

• Analyzed the results through statistical analysis of 211 relationships referent to 58 different hypothesis and content analysis of over 100 interview pages.

• Produced a 235pp final report with recommendations for future research endeavors and stakeholder action.

Pro-Bono Consultant Feb – June 2019

Fundacíon Escuelas de Paz (Foundation Peace Schools)

• Conducted background research on issues pertaining transitional justice, youth and education in the Colombian region of Arauca, with a special focus on gender.

• Worked collaboratively with a team to design a curriculum for teachers who work with students between 14 and 16 years old in order to include themes of transitional justice, conflict transformation, and gender justice in their programing.

• Improved diversity and inclusion by applying a gender analytical lens and working on mainstreaming gender in the monitoring and evaluation plan.

Graduate Research Assistant Aug 2017 – Aug 2018

Georgetown University – Conflict Resolution Program

• Worked directly with Dr. Seniha Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana, Professor of Conflict Resolution, in research for a book project focused on the intersection between gender and religion in countering violent extremism, conducting literature reviews and coding primary sources.

Pro-Bono Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant Feb–July 2018

Equipe de Conservação da Amazônia (Amazon Conservation Team)

• Designed a series of nine-hour long workshops on youth, gender, and conflict in three towns in Pará, choosing the discussion topic through consultation with the local population. Facilitated the workshops, engaging the participants in discussion which resulted in an action plan.

• Gender mainstreamed the activities and goals of a USAID funded socioenvironmental project in the same region, as the project was under review before initiating its third phase. Produced a formative evaluation plan for the same project.

Education

Georgetown University Washington, DC

Master on Conflict Resolution, Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies (GPA: 3.978) May 2019

Stetson University, Honors Program De Land, FL

Major: Political Sciences, Minor: English (GPA: 3.694) May 2017

Publications:

Author: “The Rise of Brazilian Right-Wing Populism.” Democracy & Society 15(2) (2018): 9-11.

Author: “Traditional Populations, Land Rights, and Environmental Justice: The Challenges of the Amazon.” Think Brazil. 2018.

Author: “LGBTQ Rights in Brazil: Could the Elections Impact a Challenging Landscape?” Think Brazil. 2018.

Distinctions:

Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

Software: STATA, GIS, Dedoose, ATLAS.ti, Microsoft Office Suite