Experience

Senior Strategist Forum One | 2021 - Present | USA

Digital Strategist Forum One | 2020 - 2021 | USA

  • Led discovery phase for ~60 digital transformation, organizational strategy, service design, web redesigns/builds, and mobile app projects, synthesizing goals and constraints, and employing stakeholder/client management strategy

  • Utilized service design, UX design, audience research, data analytics/SEO, content strategy, and organizational strategy in order to develop and implement strategies to solve business challenges

  • Facilitated collaborative workshops, stakeholder/audience research, and user testing

  • Crafted proposals, wrote new business scope of work documentation, and pitched new business opportunities, resulting in ~$500k in new business

  • Identified opportunities for upsells and expanding scope, led conversations with clients, resulting in ~$300k in additional business

Assessment Officer Impact Initiatives | 2019 - 2020 | Jordan

  • Conducted Third Party Monitoring for UNHCR and WFP on £80m, 5 year Cash Transfer Program funded by DFID

  • Developed methodology and monitoring framework, lead monitoring implementation, managed data collection teams, analysis, and reporting

  • Led and facilitated Collaborative Design Workshops for DFID, UNHCR, and WFP senior staff

Product Strategist & Venture for America Fellow ACES Health | 2017 - 2018 | USA

  • Oversaw product features from idea to implementation; developed user stories, product requirements, and UX design

  • Secured strategic partnerships that resulted in new 3 customers, 4 articles, and 4 white papers

  • Created and led all company culture initiatives, including core value development, and researched and instituted internal communication processes

  • Participated in 6 week "experiential MBA" training camp, creating deliverables and leading team projects with McKinsey, IDEO, Flatiron School, and various non-profits

Co-founder & Director of Partnerships HackCville | 2014 - 2017 | USA

  • Co-founded non-profit entrepreneurship education center

  • Grew membership from 35 to 1000+, grew programs from 1 to 12

  • Developed program curriculum and led courses in Human Centered Design, Social Entrepreneurship Models, Pitching, and more

  • Established/managed nationwide alumni network of 900+ entrepreneurs: produced speaking & networking events, mentorship programs, published monthly communication to 3000+ subscribers

Research Lead International Rescue Committee + University of Virginia | 2016 - 2017 | USA

  • Partnered with the Charlottesville International Rescue Committee to produce an economic impact analysis of resettled refugees in Charlottesville, Virginia

  • Directed, filmed, and edited docu-series on refugee entrepreneurs with a focus on participatory narrative and co-authorship

Research Practitioner Special Hope Network | 2013 - 2016 | Zambia

  • Created protocol to improve accessibility and inclusion services, and Special Education curriculum for Special Hope Network, NGO in Lusaka

  • Produced and implemented curriculum affecting ~200 children; tracked and analyzed improvement in fine motor, gross motor, and academic (literacy and math) milestones

  • Wrote local and national grant applications resulting in $50,000 in funding

  • 3 papers published, 2 news articles featuring project, Global Disability Panel speaker 2014

internship

Storytelling & Innovation Intern Ashoka | 2016 | USA

  • Developed comprehensive 'Storytelling for Changemaking' curriculum, currently utilized in 6 schools across the US, EU, and Middle East

  • Created graphics, content, and pitches for the We/Me Syria Program, which has reached 400+ youth in 3 refugee camps

Research Intern One Acre Fund | 2016 | UK

  • Researched, mapped, and organized the agricultural producers and actors in Malawi and India, resulting in 3 on-site visits to 12 local organizations

  • Initiated One Acre Fund connections in Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, and Nepal

Education

University of Virginia 2013 - 2017

BA with Honors, Global Development Studies + Social Entrepreneurship

School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) 2016

Graduate and undergraduate coursework in international development, water conflict/governance, NGOs, economics

SKILLS

Business

  • Proposal Development

  • Pitching

  • Scoping and Estimation

Research

  • Monitoring and Evaluation

  • Participatory Research Methods

  • Tree Testing, Card Sorting, Interviewing

Language

  • Arabic

  • Japanese

Strategy + Design

  • Service Design

  • UX Strategy

  • Content Strategy

  • Data Analytics

  • On-Page SEO

  • HCD + Design Thinking Methodology

  • Product Management

continued learning

  • Human Centered Design, +Acumen, 2019

  • Social Impact Analysis, +Acumen, 2019

  • Lean Data Approaches to Measure Social Impact, +Acumen, 2019

  • UXD + Product Management, General Assembly, 2017

  • McIntire Business Institute, University of Virginia, 2016

  • Ruby on Rails Bootcamp, iXperience, 2015

  • Education in Emergencies (EiE), IINEE + Save the Children + Humanitarian Leadership Academy, 2022

  • Survey Design, Rosenfeld Media, 2022

  • Fundamentals of Data Visualization, UC Davis, 2021

  • Monitoring and Evaluation, USAID eLearning Centre, 2019

  • Building a Better Response, Harvard Humanitarian Academy, 2019