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Dr. Patricia T. Morris, Board President, is Executive Director of Morris Consulting, an international consulting firm that builds organizational capacity for women’s rights and gender equality. She is an internationally known leader in women’s rights and development and a gender mainstreaming expert with over 20 years of professional experience designing and directing international development programs and implementing gender mainstreaming initiatives across the globe. She developed InterAction’s Gender Audit, an organizational self- assessment and gender action planning tool used widely by both international development organizations and several USAID Missions. Dr. Morris has designed and facilitated numerous gender analysis training programs and organizational gender assessments. She led an evaluation for the Royal Dutch Embassy funded program on Women in Leadership and Decision Making in Ethiopia, served as Team Leader for the USAID/Iraq Gender Assessment, and as the Senior Gender Expert for the USAID-funded Initiative for the Promotion of Afghan Civil Society. Dr. Morris was Executive Director of Peace X Peace and she also worked at Women for Women International, where she designed and directed programs for women survivors of conflict and war including rights awareness, income generation and microfinance program in Afghanistan. Earlier, she served as Deputy Director and Gender and Development Specialist for the Commission on the Advancement of Women at InterAction where she managed and provided on-site consultation, assessment and capacity building technical assistance to InterAction members on mainstreaming gender equality in programs and organizational structures. For the past 10 years, Dr. Morris has taught the Gender Analysis and Development course for the International Development Program at American University’s School of International Service where she introduces graduate students to gender analysis frameworks, gender concepts, and gender indicators for program assessment and evaluation. |
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Barbara Burtin, Treasurer and co-chair of the Fundraising Committee, is an investment analyst at Capital World Investors. She brings to AWWP a variety of international nonprofit and business experiences including entrepreneurship, management consulting, and business development. Barbara is French and speaks four languages. |
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Kimberley Heart, chair of Board Development Committee, is a nationally recognized business consultant with more than 25 years of experience. Her focus is in the areas of crisis management, re-organization, and succession planning. She is also a well renowned speaker, hosts the popular talk radio show Business with Heart, and is a published author and expert commentator for ABC, NBC, and CBS. |
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Sevil Miyhandar, co-chair of the Fundraising Committee, is a professional fundraising consultant with over twelve years of experience in the field. She currently serves as Regional Vice President of CCS Fundraising, an international fundraising firm. Her expertise is in building fundraising capacity and directing major gift campaign efforts for institutions, big and small, in a variety of sectors. Her most notable work in the NGO sector has been with Women for Women International, International Medical Corps, International Rescue Committee, Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect, and the Security Council Report. In her spare time she pursues entrepreneurial endeavors including the NY Coed Soccer League, an adult recreational soccer league she co-founded in 2004, which serves over 2,000 soccer players in the New York metro area. Sevil has a degree in Political Studies from Bard College (B.A.) and also did undergraduate studies at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. |
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Alaha Ahrar, a young Afghan poet, is currently studying human rights, political science, and international affairs at a U.S. university. Alaha has received recognition as an ambassador for her country in the United States. She also received an award for her poetry at the International World Poetry Festival in Canada in May 2011. She graduated from high school in Pakistan and is fluent in Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Urdu, and English. |
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