Project Manager

• Jun 2023 - Present

Research Assistant

• Sep 2022 - Jun 2023

I am currently working as a Research Assistant for Professor Kimberly Theidon, the Henry J. Leir Professor in International Humanitarian Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and Director of the Gender and Intersectional Analysis and Inclusive Leadership Program. Professor Theidon is currently a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia and conducting research on the implementation of the Colombian Constitutional Court’s decision that the Río Atrato is a river with rights and a victim of the armed conflict. In my role as her research assistant, I will be conducting research to understand 'rights of nature' legislation as they have been enacted in different parts of the world, paying special attention to the kind of language used in these legislations. Show less

Strategy Development Associate

• Oct 2021 - May 2023

1. Designing and conducting community consultation workshops with members of the Black community in Cambridge, as well as donors to revitalize St. Augustine’s church (the mother church of Garveyism) as a neighborhood center for assembly, empowerment, and outreach. 2. Collecting, managing, and analyzing data from consultations to generate insights regarding how community aspirations can inform the architectural redesign 3. Redesigning the website and social media maintenance 4. Management of grant funding and grant applications 5. Facilitating donor involvement 6. Assisting in Programme Design Show less

Associate Consultant

• Aug 2017 - Dec 2020

1. Served as an analyst and then an associate consultant in the Agriculture and Livelihoods team. 2. Worked with international organizations, national and state government departments and bodies to conceptualize and implement small, medium and large-scale projects aimed at enhancing the quality of life for those involved in agriculture. 3. Analyzed gender relations in specific communities and studied sex-disaggregated data about various factors such as labor and access to resources, with the aim of adopting a gender transformative approach to project implementation. 4. Facilitated sustainable and gender transformative value chain development in 10 states across India, as well as Bhutan (where I spent one month travelling across the country for data collection). Developed a toolkit for value chain analysis and market development that integrates climate resilience and gender sensitivity, for UNDP’s National Adaptation Plan Global Support Program (NAP-GSP). This has now been published by UNDP and FAO. 5. Designed a regional guarantee facility to support climate change adaptation and other development interventions. 6. Co-authored thought leaderships pertaining to nutrition-sensitive agriculture and organic farming in India. 7. Conducted field research and designed several sampling and data collection methodologies. 8. Conducted baseline, mid-line and end-line evaluations of several social policies and schemes and formulated recommendations for increased efficiency of public administration. Show less

Mentor

• Oct 2014 - Jul 2016

1. Designed the public speaking skill development curricula for students aged 12-18 in areas with high rates of juvenile delinquency. 2. Administered lessons on the basis of the curricula to 200 students across five different schools over a span of two years. 1. Designed the public speaking skill development curricula for students aged 12-18 in areas with high rates of juvenile delinquency. 2. Administered lessons on the basis of the curricula to 200 students across five different schools over a span of two years.

Research Assistant

• May 2015 - Dec 2015

1. Academic exploration of gender theories as a means to understand the nuclear policy decisions made by the United States of America through their nuclear history. 2. Conduct of a thorough desk review to identify existing literature on the links between nuclear weapons, nuclear theory and gender theory. 3. Conceptualisation of a framework through which speech transcripts and other primary sources could be studied with the aim of revealing the gendered dimensions of the information. Show less