Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
I am a democracy and governance strategist with more than 17 years of experience advancing institutional reform, public policy, and human rights across government, civil society, and the private sector. My work has focused on strengthening democratic institutions, promoting rule of law and access to justice, and translating complex legal and policy frameworks into durable, systems-level change. Across roles in U.S. government, multilateral institutions, global civil society, and the technology sector, I have led cross-sector initiatives that bridge law, policy, diplomacy, and operational execution. I am particularly interested in how institutions adapt to modern governance challenges — from safeguarding democratic resilience and gender equality to shaping responsible technology governance. I bring a people-centered, equity-driven leadership approach and a track record of building trusted partnerships across diverse political and institutional environments to advance accountable, effective public institutions. Core expertise includes: democratic governance and rule of law; human rights and access to justice; institutional and public policy reform; technology governance; gender equality; complex program leadership; and multi-stakeholder coalition building.
Provide technical support for US foreign assistance in conflict prevention, stabilization, democracy, human rights, and governance, ensuring integration with other technical sectors. Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including local leaders, civil society, donors, and international organizations, while coordinating activities across various USAID Bureaus, the Department of State, USG agencies, and international partners. Represent the USG in diplomatic settings and lead teams, including supervising staff and acting as Office Director during key transitions and crisis responses. Manage procurement, contracts, and grants, utilizing expertise in program design, management, and acquisition. Support strategic planning, technical assistance, and policy development while overseeing program evaluation to identify challenges and capitalize on opportunities.
Co-led Twitter’s global Content Governance Initiative, a cross-functional initiative with both internal and external stakeholders to develop a standardized approach to how Twitter governs speech and content on the service using a principled approach rooted in international human rights, good governance, and inclusive healthy and responsible global conversations. •Built cross-company consensus on good practices for content governance to inform the drafting and development of the industry’s first Content Governance Framework to help drive a common understanding and standardized guidelines as to how Twitter develops and enforces its global content policies. • Identified and built content governance partnerships across Trust and Safety, Product, Operations, Legal, Communications, Public Policy, and Research. •Led efforts to standardize Twitter’s principled approach to policy lifecycle process for its global content governance in line with relevant international standards, including procedural fairness and transparency. •Drove the implementation of the Content Governance Framework through cross-company testing and alignment. Activities included: advising the Site Policy team on how to improve policy governance through internal policy audits (including on hateful conduct); advising the Site Integrity team on how to develop new policies focused on climate change misinformation and communities-specific misinformation risks in line with the CGI guidelines; and conceptualizing and implementing external stakeholder engagement on content governance through Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council Advisory Group on Content Governance and a series of internal Twitter Deep Dive workshops on cross-cutting dimensions of content governance. •Provided strategic guidance on compliance and alignment opportunities with the Content Governance Framework in implementation and with regulatory frameworks such as the EU’s Digital Services Act.
Managed global projects and team with aim to advance the rule of law with a focus on access to justice. Included robust multi-donor in-country programming for Liberia on access to justice and justice awareness, and new programming starting in Nepal, Sierra Leone, and beyond. Led on budgeting, workplans, and multi-year strategy framing for access to justice programming.
The Center on International Cooperation co-founded and hosts the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership that brings together UN member states, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector to accelerate delivery of the SDG targets for peace, justice and inclusion (SDG16+). While with the Pathfinders team, worked on all three programs, with a specific focus on supporting the Peace/16.1 programming, the Justice for All programming, and the equality and inclusion related work with Ethiopia and SDG16+. Also assisted with various cross cutting program management elements.
The Obama Foundation Scholars Program seeks to support dynamic, collaborative, rising leaders from around the world in an innovative one-year academic experience.