About
I am an independent evaluation specialist with over 20 years of experience in peacebuilding, conflict prevention, development, and humanitarian assistance.
My expertise includes mixed-method program evaluation, research, and cross-cultural collaboration, and it continues to evolve through teaching and mentoring.
Whether in classrooms or in the field, I view evaluation as a shared learning process — one that strengthens insight, confidence, and meaningful engagement among practitioners working for change.
Alongside my work, I am integrating an emerging practice of conscious doing into my daily activities and the way I approach my professional work. This involves grounding in intention, observing patterns in my thoughts and emotions, and attuning to the energy I bring into interaction and activity. Over time, I have seen that this state of inner awareness shapes not only my own process, but also the quality of collaboration around me — supporting clearer communication, steadier decision-making, and ultimately more sustainable results. When we show up with aligned energy, the work that follows is more grounded, connected, and effective.
I work with practitioners, organizations, and institutions navigating diverse and evolving contexts, supporting them to learn from evidence and work with greater clarity, intention, and sustainability.
Approach & Perspective
My professional journey has unfolded across fields where change is complex and non-linear, shaped as much by human dynamics as by technical design. Over time, this work has informed an approach that values methodological rigor alongside reflection, contextual awareness, and attentiveness to the relational dimensions of practice.
I bring a transnational perspective shaped by extensive fieldwork and academic involvement, further refined through close collaboration with practitioners, policymakers, and civil society actors across diverse regions. These experiences have reinforced the importance of working across boundaries — between evidence and practice, local insight and institutional frameworks, and reflection and action.
Teaching and mentoring are integral to this approach. As a Rotary Peace Fellow alumna, this work includes engagement with emerging peacebuilders at the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center, as well as with Global Studies students at UNC–Chapel Hill and Duke University, where learning is grounded in practice-based experience and reflective engagement. In a graduate-level course on Monitoring and Evaluation for Peacebuilding Interventions at UNC-Chapel Hill, this approach is carried out into an interactive learning environment that encourages critical engagement with both methodology and context.
Across my career, I have evaluated initiatives addressing, among others, human security, governance, gender equality, migration, the rule of law, and civil society engagement across Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. While much of this work focuses on structural and systemic change, it has also led me to explore how inner awareness and presence — drawing inspiration from Eckhart Tolle — can strengthen peacebuilding practice, and other forms of professional practice, from the inside out. I have come to realize that cultivating self-awareness among practitioners influences not only how programs are implemented, but how decisions are made, relationships are formed, and outcomes are sustained — contributing to more conscious and enduring change.
