Strategy, Project & Process Leadership

Engaged Research, Praxis & Interviews

Grants, Independent Research & Projects

Engaged Pedagogy

Full Resume

2023 - Present | The Future of Global & Public Health Ethics | Working as part of a policy-focused research team focused on the future of ethics in global and public health—in areas ranging from health emergency, health system privatization, and climate health ethics. (World Health Organization Ethics & Governance Unit)

2023 | Cities for Environmental Justice & Equity Focused Just Transitions | Co-produced a two-phase strategic plan for Newark Office of Sustainability into a broader city-wide environmental justice strategy and inter-agency plan through mapping and translating Just Transition and Environmental Justice strategies in other U.S. cities. (Community Action Strategies & City of Newark)

2022 | Union Contract Campaign Lead & Bargaining Committee | Served as one of several contract Negotiation & Bargaining Committee leads and core team members during post-COVID contract negotiation as representative for Fordham adjunct faculty. (Fordham Faculty United)

2021 | U.S. Civic Space Strategy, Litigation, and Advocacy Mapping | Produced U.S. civic space map, focused on emblematic litigation and ways that courts are being used to shift definitions and intersections constitutionalized and institutionalized racism, algorithmic bias, far right and authoritarian turns, parallel legal and court system for immigration, Native and indigenous sovereignty, and a wide range of civic, civil, and political rights. (RFK Human Rights)

2020-21 | Shifting Political Power Away from Big Food & Agriculture Centered Food Systems - Advise, support, and lead on mapping food and agribusiness industries' lobbying and political influencing strategies. (Feed the Truth)

2020 | Anxieties of Voting-by-Mail in 2020: Contending with the Past, the Pandemic, and the Political Climate | Design, manage, and implement action research on how historically disenfranchised voters in four US cities viewed the trustworthiness and reliability of mail-in ballots during the historic surge in reliance on alternatives to in-person voting during the 2020 primaries and general election. (Center for Civic Design)

2019-2020 | Internal audit of UNHCR’s Accountability to Affected People policy | Conducted internal assessment and operational analysis of UNHCR’s capacity to uphold its own policy of accountability to displaced people living in Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt. (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

2017 | Power and equity mapping across transnational membership network | Completed a membership network analysis and power map focused on un/equal access & representation from within/across geographies, types of civic activity, language, and resource base vis a vis benefiting from or accessing CIVICUS support. (CIVICUS)

2016 | Equity and inclusion in Jordan’s emerging digital economy | Produced political economy analysis of equitable and rights-based livelihood opportunities for low-income women—both displaced from neighboring Syria, and permanent residents, both Palestinian and Jordanian—given the realities of a neoliberal economic development environment in Jordan. Policy recommendations addressed specific dynamics of mobile, internet, and information economies along with structural economic realities and constraints, and regional geopolitical considerations. (Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund)

2016-17 | Real-time data generation during urban environmental emergency | Conducted interviews with administrators in Jakarta’s Office of Emergency Management and civic technologists who co-designed real-time urban emergency management tools to alert and respond to massive flooding during the city's monsoon season, as part of a four partner consortium led by the Institute for Development Studies (IDS). (Institute for Development Studies & Feedback Labs)

2014 -15 | Transnational political activist network building and digital risk mitigation | Served as a founding advisory network member for Beautiful Rising, acting as an advisor on low-tech and risks of tech in cross-border collaboration of activities in political repressive environments. (Beautiful Rising)

2015 | Governance project strategy aimed at addressing structural inequality in the digital age | Governance Project Director managing strategy, programs, and partnerships related to public service delivery, civic space and engagement, human rights, data ethics, accountable institutions, information rights, and political activism —- all at the intersection of digital and mobile infrastructure in and across low-connectivity geographies. (SIMLab)

2023 - Present | A Social Justice Approach to the U.S. Opioid Crisis | Working as part of an external, independent, evaluation consulting team to track and narrate the evolution of OSF's Collaboration on Overdose in America, which cuts across public health, drug policy, and US programs, among others. (Open Society Foundation Collaborative on Overdose in America)

2021 | Case map of authoritarian design, political economy & procurement | Completed seven case studies on emerging authoritarian design around the world including Smart Cities, Digital Jails, and Net Zero markets, among others, for Security in Context, a collective of researchers, activists, and writers focused on the political economy of security and insecurity, militarism, and geopolitics particularly as they intersect with the processes of climate change, population movement, and reorganization of global powers. (Security in Context Collective)

2020-21 | Narrating pandemic closures, reopening, hybrids, and the total transformation of U.S. schooling | Conducted long form oral histories with educators, school leaders, and education visionaries as part of an archive documenting 18 months of the COVD-19 pandemic through the lived experience of people inside schools. (Oral History Summer School)

2020 | Coalition, strategy, and politics that led to the 2019 passage of landmark EU Whistleblower Directive | Produced interview-based case study on EU Whistleblower legislation. Completing interviews with key organizational and coalition stakeholders across a network of democracy, transparency, anti-corruption, union activists and political leaders in order to complete a case study on the process that led to the successful passage of the 2018 European Union Whistleblower Directive. (Transparency International)

2016 - 2019 | Learning from agroecology movements across Mesoamerica and the Caribbean | Accompaniment-centered documentation of strategies and practices of agroecological social movements, and transborder networks of food, land, and climate defenders, collectively advancing the transition from agribusiness and extractivist-development models to ecologically and cooperative development models in Mesoamerica, Mexico, and the Carribean. Some of this work undertaken as part of Dr. Shana Starobin’s research, some of this work undertaken independently. (MAELA, Independent, Bowdoin College, UPENN Law School)

2018 | Can pilot projects accelerate decarceration? Clearing low-level bench warrants sans courts in NYC | Conducted operational action research on a pilot project administered by the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice in partnernship with Bronx Legal Aid and Reboot aimed at dramatically simplifying the process to clear low-level bench warrants without needing to go to court (or any other city agency). (Reboot)

2015 | Connecting the Dots: Civil Society-Grassroots Policy, Accountability & Monitoring Strategies | Documented activist & advocate workshops comparing grassroots-NGO strategic cooperation and competition in advancing transparency, accountability, and/or justice in the public sector in Guatemala, South Africa, and Indonesia.(**Accountability Research Center, American University) **This workshop and its documentation took place 1-2 years prior to the official launch of AU’s Accountability Research Center.

2016 | Oral history of the past, present, and future of U.S. news in transition | Journalist and oral historian traveling across the U.S. to collect life stories in several U.S. cities during the 2016 election and subsequent period of political transition. Interviews covered four chapters including: Memories and stories of the news, the news in professional or daily life, the news related to the U.S. election and political transition, and the future of news. (The Day After Reading)

2013 | Case studies of long-term policy transformation | Senior researcher producing oral history based case studies on policy transformation during/following political, economic, or technological transition — in Mexico and Tanzania. (Princeton University’s School of International Affairs).

2012 | Aid Accountability Politics in Post/Conflict Countries | Co-managed research team analyzing limited scope in which civilian voice, agenda-setting, dissent, oversight, or participation is possible as part of existing institutional transparency and accountability protocols in South-South and North-South bilateral aid to three conflict-affected countries: Colombia, Sri Lanka, and Liberia. Findings were co-published by Transparency International and Columbia University. (Transparency International & Columbia University)

2012 | Protecting Brazilian Labor Rights through Prosecutorial Innovation | Drew on the dissertation materials of Dr. Salo Coslovsky and other colleagues to compile four case studies on innovative approaches taken by Brazilian labor prosecutors in strengthening labor rights protections and labor code enforcement in Brazilian supply chains that rely heavily on informal labor including the charcoal, sugarcane, circus and fireworks industries. (New York University)

2013-2016 & 2022 - Present | Podcast host for New Books in World Affairs | Interview authors for podcast episodes introducing their new books on topics ranging from global political economy, political transitions, development and humanitarian politics, historical profiles, futurism, and race and international relations among other themes. Regions of focus include the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States. (New Books in World Affairs)

2020-21 | Mitigating Structural Harm of Lockdown While Protecting Public Health | Received WHO Epidemic Ethics FCDO/Wellcome Grant research grant for research and policy impact assessment framework development related to assessing structural impact of regional quarantine and lockdown as a public health tool in the future, with an emphasis on mitigating harm to already vulnerable populations. Research focused on cases from El Salvador, India, Lebanon, and the United States. (World Health Organization, Health Ethics & Governance Unit and PHEPREN (the Public Health Emergency and Preparedness and Response Ethics Network)

2020 | Shock-induced Changes to NGO-Mutual Aid Governance, Collaboration & Responsiveness | Conducted independent research on NGO-mutual aid responses to rapidly changing circumstances triggered by a combination of COVID-19 related protocols, restrictions, and uncertainties alongside the public and institutional reckonings with racial injustice following the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, analyzing governance structure, resource distribution models, insider-outsider dynamics, and donor administrative changes or lack thereof to supporting frontline work. Research assistant Laura Catalina Ortiz Salazar provided extensive research support on this project. (Independent)

2018-19 | Dissent and whistleblowing in transnational organizations and processes | Awarded Research Fellowship to conduct research on (1) dissent and whistleblowing in international humanitarian and development organizations, and; (2) dissent and whistleblowing on climate harm/risk in international trade agreements. (Government Accountability Project)

2017 | Outsourcing Governance Across Borders in Jordan: Geography, Bureaucracy, and Dissent | Selected for partially funded participation in Critical Political Economy of the Middle East Summer Institute to present a paper on the political economy of how international organizations and NGOs in Jordan function as pseudo governments for various low-income, urban, and refugee populations in the country. (Arab Studies Institute, George Mason University)

2015 | Politics & Ethics of Data and Technology in International Development | Awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Governance Lab at NYU, where I wrote about the politics of open data and information politics in international development. (The GovLab, New York University)

2015 | Mapping surveillance and technology use by security actors during active conflict | Lead technology package researcher and methodology design for a multi-university consortium analyzing the evolution of technology use during violent conflict in 11-countries, focused laregly on how its uses were changing by and among security actors.

2022 - Present | New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | Co-teaching course on leadership and management for systems change in transnational contexts. Additionally teaching, facilitating, and advising 3-4 graduate capstone policy consulting teams annually working on specific non-profit research and strategy questions.

2018 - 2022 | Fordham University | Teaching undergraduate courses in environmental justice, global peace and justice movements, and previously taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on crisis, aid, NGO, and humanitarian politics, political economy and decolonization of the contemporary international system. Current courses area joint appointment of the Environmental Studies & Political Science Departments.

2021 | One course / Two Cities | Received a Fordham University Grant for Community Engaged Learning | to co-develop a teaching curriculum to be administered as a shared course in two different cities simultaneously, enabling project and learning collaboration and pedagogical exchange between students in the Bronx & Bogotá or the Bronx & Cape Town. Project underway/ongoing. (Fordham University)

2011-2018 | Simulation development for political sensitive scenario-planning in complex systems | Designed and facilitated more than a dozen policy, emergency, and advocacy simulations for navigating multiple scenarios related to social, political, environmental, ethical, and geopolitical issues. Groups engaged in simulations have included information activists, policy-makers, journalists, researchers, and students. Through simulations, planning and strategizing across scenarios in complex political or emergency environments is practiced and subsequently used to inform strategic planning or policy processes. (Independent)

2012 | Oral History and Human Rights Summer Institute Assistant Coordinator | Assisted in organizing and documenting a two-week long summer institute focused on oral history and human rights. As part of this role, I organized a panel called: “Examining the Role of Narrative in Human Rights Advocacy, Documentation and Justice-Seeking.” Participants were journalists, lawyers, historians, researchers, and activists all engaged in oral history projects in contexts with sensitive historical or political realities, or with narrators in politically or socially vulnerable situations. Thematic areas of focus included intergenerational dialogue in the African American community, oral history in transitional justice proceedings after conflict, and oral history and historical memory among other topics. Participants came from Guatemala, Jordan, Rwanda, Turkey, and the United States. (Columbia University Center for Oral History)

2007-2012 – Program/Group Facilitator | Taught curriculum and facilitated educational programs focused on ethics, human rights, the history of international development and historical narratives of US-Nicaragua / US-Mexico political, economic and military relations to multiple groups of US university students in partnership with community-based health organizations and agricultural cooperative/food sovereignty focused organizations. Also launched program, developed curricula for, and facilitated five service-learning and youth exchange programs in the Navajo and Hopi Nations in US Southwest; facilitated discussion on historical and cultural memory, natural resource management and Navajo/Hopi US government relations. (Various human rights and civic education organizations)