PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• MY OBJECTIVES:

  • Job opportunities
  • Consulting assignments
  • Professional networking

• EDUCATION:

  • Development & Planning, Master's Degree, University College London , United Kingdom , September 2003 - September 2004

• PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

  • American Planning Association
  • Society for International Development

Experience Summary

• Skills, Background, and Experience:

  Qualified to provide skilled, professional consultation on global development projects and/or programmes as they relate to specific communities and/or populations at the local, regional, or national level. Aim is to highlight and communicate potential social impacts, whether positive or negative, in areas of health, education, access to goods and services, housing, and security, to assess the sustainability of the project taking into account all possible conditions, and to make recommendations to strengthen and/or modify the project as may be needed for its success. Experience in project evaluation and consultation, participatory methodology, capacity building, conflict resolution, rapid rural appraisal, and social impact assessment. Emphasis is on practical application in multiethnic/cultural, cosmopolitan environments with a specific interest in women's welfare and advancement. Work/travel includes Brazil, Jamaica, Morocco, Tanzania, and Kenya. Basic familiarity with Swahili and Arabic, conversational speaking ability in Spanish.

• Areas of Expertise:

  Anthropology/Sociology, Communications/Marketing, Environment & Natural Resources, Health, Infrastructure, Institutional Development, Micro & Small Enterprise, Private Sector Development, Project Management, Scientific Research, Urban & Regional Development, Administrative, Africa, Eastern, Africa, Northern, America, Caribbean, America, Latin, America, Northern, Asia, Central, Europe, Northern, Europe, Western, Brazil, Jamaica, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States

• Opportunities I Might Consider:

  • All

Supporting Documents

• Independent Media Center www_indymedia_org ((( i ))).htm
  IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards html file: sample piece of freelance journalism (File size: 36564KB)
• PROJECTEVALUATIONLIMA.doc
  Project Evaluation: Lima, Peru word file- brief sample of report  (File size: 32768KB)

Relevant Links

• Media for Global Development
  For-profit media advocacy organization whose motto is "Creating Media Awareness on Poverty, Disease & Hunger." Founder is Nosh Nalavala, former media and press officer for the United Nations.
• Independent Media Center
  Independent news media organization focusing on issues of human rights, grass-roots activism, current events from a bottom-up perspective.
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development
  Based in Switzerland.
• Society for International Development
  "Created in 1957, the Society for International Development (SID) is a unique global network of individuals and institutions concerned with development which is participative, pluralistic and sustainable...SID plays an important mediating and facilitating role among progressive civil society groups, connecting activists, intellectuals, academics and policy-makers working at community, national and international level." Based in Rome, Italy
• Development Planning Unit, University of London

• Current status:

  happily employed

• Upcoming assignment:

  No information

• Employment status:

  Holding a full-time staff position

• Career Level:

  Entry-level

• Citizenships and Permanent Residences:

  1. United States

• Total Years of Experience:

  1 year

• Languages:

  1. English