Experience

Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Programs

  • Dec 2020 - Present

  •Manage and provide oversight and strategic direction to UAF’s programmatic work including: rapid response grantmaking; advocacy and alliance building; and monitoring, evaluation, and learning •Manage and provide oversight and strategic direction to UAF’s programmatic work including: rapid response grantmaking; advocacy and alliance building; and monitoring, evaluation, and learning



International Women's Health Coalition

• United States
• Nonprofit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Officer, Grantmaking & International Partnerships

  • Sep 2019 - Nov 2020

  • Contributed to the design and implemented IWHC’s trust-based grantmaking and partnership program • Guided and managed a portfolio of grants to advance sexual and reproductive rights/justice from an intersectional feminist perspective, with a particular focus on Africa (Cameroon, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa) • Contributed to the design and implemented IWHC’s trust-based grantmaking and partnership program • Guided and managed a portfolio of grants to advance sexual and reproductive rights/justice from an intersectional feminist perspective, with a particular focus on Africa (Cameroon, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa)



Population Council

• United States
• Research Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Program Manager

  • Jan 2016 - Sep 2019

  •Provided leadership for the overall management and implementation of the Evidence to End FGM/C (EEFGMC): Research to Help Girls and Women Thrive Programme in Nigeria, with a focus on producing a global evidence base on the most effective and cost-effective approaches to ending female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in order to inform policy and programming. • Served as the principal investigator on two studies focused on understanding the medicalization of FGM/C in Nigeria from the perspectives of parents and health workers and assessing the health system’s response to the prevention of FGM/C and the management of complications in survivors.• Designed, implemented, and documented stakeholder engagement and research uptake strategies including the establishment of quarterly meetings of FGM/C implementing partners and the Federal Ministries of Health and Women Affairs. Show less

• Program Coordinator

  • Jan 2013 - Dec 2015

  • Co-designed and led the implementation of learning/advocacy activities to sensitize Nigerian media, governmental and community-based organizations (CBOs) to the HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) vulnerabilities of adolescents and young people (AYP) • Key project achievements included significant technical assistance to the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) and UNICEF in developing the first national HIV strategy for AYP and to the Federal Ministry of Health for development of the first guidelines on the age of consent for adolescents to access SRH services without parental consent in Nigeria Show less

• Program Officer

  • Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

  •Successfully provided supportive supervision and technical/ programmatic assistance to five CBOs implementing HIV prevention interventions among men who have sex with men and persons who use drugs across 3 states in Northern Nigeria (Global Fund and CDC funded projects)



Women's Health and Equal Rights Initiative (WHER), Nigeria

• Nigeria
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Programs

  • Nov 2011 - Sep 2019

  •Worked closely with the Executive Director to determine the strategic direction of the organization and to design/implement advocacy, empowerment, health/well-being and research/documentation interventions targeted at lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women. Supervised a team of 6 staff, consultants and volunteers •Developed grant proposals and concept notes including successful applications to FRIDA the Young Feminist Fund, Mama Cash, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, Ford Foundation, and the Heinrich Boll Foundation •Advised key stakeholders diplomatic missions (including US and EU missions), and the National Human Rights Commission on the implications of the legal and sociocultural environment on the health and security of LGBTQI persons in Nigeria Show less