About

I am a monitoring, evaluation, and research specialist with a PhD in Sociology from the Graduate Center, CUNY. Over the past decade, I have worked at the intersection of academia, policy, and practice, facilitating data-driven decision-making in collaboration with NGOs, government agencies, and research institutions. My work focuses on gender, inequality, poverty, livelihoods, and social policy, combining rigorous research methodologies with applied program evaluation.

My expertise spans quasi-experimental and correlative research design, qualitative, quantitative, and spatial data collection and analysis, as well as monitoring and evaluation system design. My research examines cross-national gender differences in tax payment patterns and the disconnect between policy and implementation in gender equality interventions by large governmental and non-governmental organizations, particularly the World Bank.

I have contributed to projects funded or implemented by UN Women, UNDP, ILO, the World Bank, USAID, World Vision, Plan USA, WUR, and others. My research and evaluation work spans over fifty countries. The results of my academic and programmatic work have been featured in international conferences, a UN Think Piece, policy briefs, a technical journal, and the International Journal of Sociology.