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Dr. Jane Henrici designs, conducts, and teaches research on gender and intersectionality, focusing on disaster response, development for recovery, and climate change adaptation. She directed and co-directed four COVID-19 projects and collaborated with colleagues in Puerto Rico for a project on cascading disasters. Dr. Henrici directed an international committee gathering on gender and COVID-19 for the Natural Hazards Center of the University of Colorado at Boulder. She represented the Women’s Major Group on organizing committees for two Thematic Sessions of the UN Disaster Risk Reduction’s Global Platform. She’s a Professorial Lecturer in the Gender Program of the Elliott School of International Affairs at GW University.?
Emily B. Brown is a gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) researcher and consultant who has worked with several prominent international development organizations, such as Venture37, PAE, FHI 360, and Save the Children US, to provide GESI technical assistance for proposal development and project design in response to bi-lateral, multi-lateral, and private sector requests up to $200 million. She has worked on dozens of bids across a range of sectors, including health, education, agriculture, food security, civil society and governance, adolescents and youth, and more. Emily currently consults with the women-owned small business Bid Boss to support international development actors with GESI strategy, design, and compliance for proposal development. ?
Maja Bosnic is an economist, specialized in public financial management and gender-responsive budgeting with 20 years of professional experience in international development projects. Ms Bosnic was a Team Leader of one of the largest global projects on gender-budgeting: Gender Budgeting in Ukraine Project funded by Sida (2013-2020). In her work with international finance institutions, including International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank group (WB), she has most recently cooperated with the WB PEFA Secretariat in developing new tools to ensure gender equality is taken up in public finance management processes. She has worked on developing and implementing number of training programs in South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe in cooperation with the IMF and Joint Vienna Institute. She gave TED talk at TED Women Conference in Palm Springs (2021).?
Afaf Al-Khoshman (she/her) specializes in research methods, gender, migration, and the histories, politics, and cultures of the Middle East. She has worked on major projects related to women, gender and youth in the United States, Iraq, and Jordan for organizations including the Aspen Institute for Development Entrepreneurs, UNICEF, the CGIAR Gender Impact Platform, Freedom House, and and Al Firdawas. She has designed curriculum and led trainings about intersectionality and development, intersectionality in applied research methods, women’s economic empowerment, gender mainstreaming, and Islamic feminisms.
Afaf is a Ph.D. candidate in the education and anthropology program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has a Master of Arts Degree in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. Afaf was born and raised in Jordan and currently lives in the U.S.A.