I’ve been working international development and relief for the last 18 years, with a focus primarily on program monitoring and evaluation (M&E) using both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis. I’ve worked as a contractor with USAID for 9 of the last 10 years and have provided technical expertise and training in the design and implementation of program and impact evaluations. I already have a PhD in Folklore/Ethnomusicology and I’m now pursuing a PhD in Public Health (Global Health) that builds on my MPH in International Health & Development and Field Epidemiology. I’ve accumulated 8 years of research and work experience based overseas, which includes dissertation research in Sierra Leone, post-doctoral research in Guinea-Conakry, and field-based work assignments in Mali, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan, and Rwanda, with shorter-term assignments elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Senegal, Rwanda, Malawi, Kenya, Angola, and South Africa), as well as Eurasia, Asia and the Middle East (Georgia, Montenegro, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Indonesia, East Timor, and Vietnam), and Latin America and the Caribbean (Haiti, Jamaica, Eastern Caribbean states, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Colombia, and Peru).