Sehdia Mansaray is a Sierra Leonean-American development practitioner with over 8 years of experience in qualitative research, project design and implementation, project management, and program evaluation. Her areas of focus in rural livelihoods, food security, and conservation, are centered in community empowerment through equitable and inclusive decision-making processes.
Sehdia has applied these interests internationally through ethnographic field work on protected area management and value in Guatemala; agroforestry extension with farmers, students, women’s groups, and local extension agents in Senegal; and, through program support to humanitarian and environmental organizations in the United States.
She is currently pursuing a master’s in Development Practice at the University of Arizona and holds a B.S. in Environmental Science and B.A. in Anthropology from North Carolina State University.
Sehdia is fluent in English, French, and Wolof and has working proficiency in Spanish and Krio.
