About
I am an independent evaluation and research consultant with over 20 years of experience in peacebuilding, conflict prevention, international development, and humanitarian assistance.
My work focuses on mixed-method evaluation, applied research, and cross-cultural collaboration, supporting organizations to generate evidence, learn from their work, and strengthen the effectiveness of their initiatives. This practice continues to evolve through teaching, mentoring, and engagement with diverse practitioners and contexts.
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 explore how present-moment awareness and reflective practice shape how I engage in evaluation and research. By grounding in intention and becoming more aware of the inner state I bring into interactions, I have seen how this awareness influences both my own approach and the quality of collaboration — supporting clearer communication, more thoughtful decision-making, and more sustainable outcomes.
I work with practitioners, organizations, and institutions navigating complex and diverse environments, supporting them to learn from evidence and operate 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.
