International NGO Director
Experience
- MA (International Development) – American University School of International Service
- BA (Comparative Politics & Italian Studies) – University of Maryland at College Park
- 18 years of experience in international development working with UN agencies and international NGOs
- Professional experience in 12 countries in 4 languages
Why I Love My Job
I am enthusiastic at the opportunity to bridge communication gaps with the ultimate objective of enabling mission-driven organizations to achieve their respective goals of empowering marginalized people. I truly believe that helping the world become a better place, step by step, starts with the very simple concept of listening to, and understanding, what stakeholders need. I value the ability to innovate and say “yes” to the possibility of solutions, and this is the foundation upon which Compass Languages is built.
What I Do Extra For Clients
I am working for organizations in the international development community, whose language struggles center around time, budget, and accuracy. I strive to enable every stakeholder’s voice within the international NGO landscape to be heard, from the indigenous tribe member to the donor funding projects. I listen to your needs, and I do everything beyond possibility to make communication a bridge, not a roadblock, in facilitating life-saving, community-improving global missions.
Community Service I Respect
The UN World Food Programme is a leader in the global landscape of “teaching people to fish”, seeking to empower the world’s most disenfranchised people through emergency food aid, protracted relief and recovery operations to displaced populations, and longer-term development programmes to educate the next generation with the objective of ending widespread poverty in this generation. With food security as the basis upon which to construct a more prosperous life, organizations like UN-WFP have my total respect for recognizing basic needs and thus providing dignity and the right of possibility to the ultra-poor living on the fringes of the “last mile.”