[scroll down for EDUCATION]

Final Editor, Program Manager         2013-present
Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, Washington DC
  • Final edit Cluster Munition Monitor (2013, 2014 and 2015) and Landmine Monitor (2013 and 2014) the de facto civil society-led monitoring regime for the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the Mine Ban Treaty, led by the Nobel prize-winning International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the Cluster Munition Coalition.
  • Manage a team of 12 editors and dozens of researchers located around the globe.
  • Develop press releases and serve as a media contact for the Monitor.

Director and Policy Advisor (Secretariat)         2011-2013
Control Arms, New York NY
  • Establish new Secretariat to support civil society alliance active in all regions of the world, leading to the successful international negotiation and adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty, the first global treaty on the trade in all conventional weapons.
  • Liaise with diplomats and government officials in the United Nations and other fora. Present to government, public and expert audiences globally.
  • Draft policy papers for Control Arms, manage production of select reports.
  • Develop and implement global media and coalition strategy, and act as media contact. 
  • Oversee fundraising and donor relations for the Secretariat.

Deputy Director          2009-2011
Arms Control Association, Washington DC
  • Provide senior leadership in strategic planning, policy development, grant writing and reporting, communications, new media development, personnel hiring and supervision.
  • Serve as staff expert on conventional weapons issues.
  • Track Congressional and administration efforts, meet with staff, draft and circulate community sign-on letters, serve as media resource. 

Managing Editor & Research Analyst         2007-2009
Arms Control Association, Washington DC
  • Manage production of Arms Control Today, a leading publication on global security and nonproliferation.
  • Research and write on the arms trade, conventional weapons, and outer space arms control. 
 
Director         2006-2007
Oakland Community After School Alliance, Oakland CA   
  • Work directly with government representatives from multiple agencies, funders and community based organizations to advance policy development and implementation.
  • Set agendas, lead outreach and facilitate meetings and events for as many as 200 people.

Special Projects Associate        2005-2006
Urban Strategies Council, Oakland CA 
  • Work with multiple groups and community stakeholders to promote community capacity building in one of Oakland’s most economically challenged neighborhoods.

Fellow           2003-2004
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Menlo Park CA      
  • Research and conduct strategic planning within interdepartmental team to promote education-related philanthropy, with special emphasis on international education.

Multiple Positions      Education field – teacher, NGO admin, community technology              1993-2003


Education  

University of California, Berkeley - Goldman School of Public Policy 
Master in Public Policy, 2003. Graduate Student Instructor for Quantitative Methods course. 

Bocconi University, Milan (Italy)
International Program of the Master in Public Management – two-week program – September 2002.

Princeton University 
AB Religion, Teacher Preparation Program (Social Studies), 1993. National Merit Scholar.