Bio
• Dedicated professional with management experience plus postgraduate education
• U.S. AmeriCorps, U.S. Political Party, U.S. Peace Corps, and Foreign Language skills
• Domestic, international, and post-conflict zone work and research experience
• Strong commitment to social justice, rights-based approaches, and continuous learning
NGO Development Advisor
U.S. Peace Corps
June 2006 – August 2008 (2 years 3 months) Lesotho
• Advised a Lesotho Government agency’s office on policy and strategy implementation
• Delivered education, information dissemination, and monitoring & evaluation
• Engaged in capacity building exercises via instruction on health and business practices
• Distributed grants from The Global Fund to village “support-groups”
• Supervised The Global Fund money used for sustainable income-generating projects
• Organized and executed HIV/AIDS data-collection and activities-coordination strategies
• Educated 100 male prison inmates weekly about HIV/AIDS
• Conducted projects focused on orphans & vulnerable-children with gender-based approach
• Co-Chaired gender task-force on commercial teen sex-workers
Activities:
District AIDS Representative-Qacha’s Nek District, District Security Committee-Qacha’s Nek District, Diversity Committee Member, U.S. Embassy Security Warden-Qacha’s Nek District