About

Who I Am

Background

I am a strategic humanitarian leader with more than fifteen years of experience working across displacement crises, disaster risk reduction, and international development. My career has taken me from the refugee camps of Jordan and the conflict zones of Syria, to the mapping offices of Dar es Salaam and the policy corridors of Washington, D.C.

At the core of this work is a persistent question: how do we build the capacity of people, institutions, and communities to navigate crisis? The answers I have found involve strategy, technology, data, and — perhaps most importantly — careful attention to place and to the people who live there.

I am drawn to complexity. The work I find most meaningful tends to sit at intersections: between policy and field operations, between humanitarian principles and technological possibility, between the formal record of history and the lived experience of the people it describes.

Outside of professional life, I write — both historical research through the PRM History Project and short creative work including haiku. I photograph. I build things, some of which work better than others. I am currently developing a GIS-focused company and a provisional patent for a location-locked file encryption application.