Projects

Human Mobility and Migration Advocacy

The Group of Seven (G7) is an informal group of large democracies that meets annually to discuss mutual interests. Every year, its activities culminate in an annual G7 Summit, held in rotating capitals. A series of engagement groups representing perspectives such as "business" and "civil society" runs parallel meetings to develop common positions that are communicated to G7 governments ahead of their meetings.

Each engagement group runs thematic working groups to facilitate discussion and determine shared objectives, and holds its own summit in the G7 host capital.

In 2024, I served as international co-coordinator for Civil Society engagement group's thematic working group on human mobility and migration. This involved coordinating with Italian counterparts to run virtual meetings with international and national civil society organizations to build consensus. As co-coordinator, I took a lead role in compiling inputs from civil society groups and collectively editing the migration section of the official C7 Communiqué presented to G7 governments.

At the C7 summit in Rome, I organized and moderated a formal panel discussion with representatives from civil society organizations and UN agencies to showcase the importance for G7 governments to improve their approaches to migration and elevated these points through public messaging.

In parallel, I managed a working group of US-based international organizations to align US advocacy with the global effort through meetings with State Department colleagues involved in drafting the G7 communiqué, to advocate for civil society positions.

Understanding Humanitarian Donor Governments

How do Humanitarian Donors Make Decisions, and What is the Scope for Change?

While at the Center for Global Development, a Washington, DC-based think tank, I had the opportunity to dig deep into the power and politics of how resources are allocated to meet humanitarian needs. A common mantra is that humanitarian assistance should meet peoples' most acute needs. Yet the picture has always been more complicated than that. Donors face a variety of political and bureaucratic constraints to making decisions.

Much of the data collected for this analysis fed into several additional research products under CGD's humanitarian reform work. For this analysis, I took a step back to answer some fundamental questions along with the paper's co-author.

I designed data collection tools, collected survey data, performed qualitative and quantitative analysis, created tailored visualizations using Excel and Tableau, and served as lead author on CGD policy paper: “How do Humanitarian Donors Make Decisions, and What is the Scope for Change?”

Freelance Analysis and Writing

As a freelance writer and researcher, I have been drawn to issues of power and politics. My work has appeared in The New Humanitarian, Devex, The New Arab, Jacobin Germany, and elsewhere.