San Francisco, California, United States
I build bridges across the tech industry, government, and civil society to solve global challenges and scale impact. An experienced Chief of Staff and Strategy and Operations leader in the private and public sectors, I have 18+ years of global experience, including serving as a U.S. diplomat and scaling Facebook's Global Trust and Safety Operations team. From guiding my team in Istanbul through unprecedented security challenges — a coup attempt, an evacuation, multiple terrorist attacks, and rising anti-Americanism — to leading large-scale strategic initiatives at Amazon Web Services, I excel at leading cross-functional and cross-cultural teams, planning and executing complex projects, and breaking down silos to build bridges across organizations, sectors, and countries. I've won two U.S. State Department awards for my service. In August 2021, I recruited, trained, and led a global 150+ volunteer Truman National Security Project Flight Manifest Operations team that enabled 1000+ people (Afghans and U.S. citizens) to evacuate safely from Afghanistan. I value people and organizations that do what they say, learn from every “failure,” and believe building inclusion so everyone can achieve their full potential is the right thing to do and a business imperative, not a box-checking exercise. As a daughter of immigrants and the first person in my family to attend college, my North Star is ensuring underrepresented voices are heard and democratizing access to opportunity for everyone.
I scale Visa's Global Policy team's impact to shape the future of payments while contributing to Visa’s mission of connecting the world by enabling secure, seamless payments across 200+ countries and territories.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.
Truman is a nationwide membership of diverse leaders inspired to serve in the aftermath of 9/11 and committed to shaping and advocating for tough, smart national security solutions. We believe that America is at its best when we use all the tools in our toolbox: Diplomacy, defense, development, and democracy promotion. From August 24-31, 2021, I led the Flight Manifest Operations team on behalf of Truman, which served as the central clearinghouse for all private charters arriving in and departing Kabul, Afghanistan through August 31. Truman Fellows and 150+ volunteers worked 24/7 to ensure that flights leaving Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) had no empty seats. Our efforts enabled 1000+ people (Afghans and U.S. citizens) to evacuate on 7 private charter flights, which predominantly flew to transit countries, including: Albania, Macedonia, the U.A.E, Ukraine, Uganda, and Qatar. Truman also supported some individuals' access to U.S. military flights, which travelled to a combination of U.S. military bases in the Middle East and Europe. I recruited and trained 150+ volunteers across the U.S., APAC, EMEA, built our Manifest Ops processes and SOPs from scratch, and scaled our Manifest Operations process improvements in real time with 24/7 global coverage. I also secured Amazon’s support for Truman's continued Afghanistan Crisis Operations efforts.
Public speaker on a diverse range of topics including innovation, strategic partnerships, cross-cultural communication and leadership, foreign policy, diplomacy, national security, career transition, trust and safety, digital ethics, gender equity, women in technology, and inclusion and allyship.
Business Advisor (Chief of Staff) to the Vice President of Global Education & U.S. State and Local Government, Worldwide Public Sector. I led first-of-its-kind pan-Amazon strategic partnerships to scale our $1.5B business and serve our Public Sector customers. Bar Raiser: I partnered with hiring managers across Amazon hire the best bar-raising talent by conducting hundreds of interviews, leading interview debriefs, and training Amazon’s next generation of Bar Raisers.