Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Specialist

Jennifer is a gender equality and social inclusion specialist, expert trainer and well-rounded international development practitioner with proven gender analysis skills and diverse technical writing and research experience supporting gender transformative tool development, activity design, project implementation, and gender-integrated proposals.

Jennifer has over 20 years of experience in multi-cultural and multi-lingual work environments and is fluent in French and Spanish. Her strengths include designing and delivering trainings and workshops on gender equality, diversity and inclusion, sexual harassment, and preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and abuse. Other strengths include leading teams of staff and consultants remotely and using a systems approach to promote sustainable stakeholder engagement.

Most recently, as gender specialist at FHI 360, Jennifer provided gender analysis and technical support to five DC-based technical departments, five country offices and led a multi-country francophone community of practice for internal gender capacity building.

Jennifer has also served as technical co-lead to help USAID create a new Framework to Promote Women's Economic Empowerment and Equality (WE3) and co-facilitated US Embassy trainings on Gender Integration and Women’s Economic Empowerment for the Department of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues (GWI) in Lima, Bogota, Brasilia, and Sao Paolo.