Lutece O. Cannelle
Lutece has an M.A in Social Justice/Community Organizing and a B.A in Environmental/Marine Studies. Her career includes time spent at Prescott’s Kino Bay Center, a field station in Mexico, where she observed by boat the islands, estuaries, oyster farms, and shrimp aquaculture. She inspected various gear used and its environmental impacts, and she went on […]
Ahmed Elmi
Ahmed Elmi holds a Master’s degree in International Public Policy and a Master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, forming a strong academic foundation for his work in research, global policy and development. With over a decade of experience in program management, Ahmed brings extensive expertise in […]
Nathan Ferguson
Nathan holds a BA from Durham University in Theology. His brief career post university has taken him from Westminster, where he worked for a Baroness, to Argentina, where he worked in a school. He has been working at IRMA alongside these other experiences, and hopes to continue to work in the consulting sector in the […]
Isimbi Sebageni
VRAA Associate and nomadic scholar based in East Africa, with lived experience across nine countries. Isimbi holds a Bachelor’s in Social Science from Glasgow Caledonian University and a Master’s in Gender from the University of London (SOAS). She is currently pursuing a PhD in International Relations at USIU-Africa in Kenya. Her research focuses on gender […]
Florence Copigneaux
Florence Copigneaux is a French and Canadian humanitarian professional with a strong academic background in public health (M1, Nancy University) and business administration (MSc, HEC Paris). She has over 15 years of experience in project leadership, human resources, and finance across diverse humanitarian settings in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, with a particular focus […]
Ambre Caillot
Ambre holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Sorbonne Sciences in Paris and a master’s degree in Ethology, the science of animal behavior. Based in France, she has worked on wildlife research projects both in captivity and in the wild across Africa. Her expertise focuses on the intersection of biodiversity conservation, climate change, species adaptation, […]
Anjelica Montano
Anjelica studied pre-med at the University of Minnesota Rochester, obtaining a Bachelor of Science Degree in Health Sciences. She is currently enrolled in a Master of Development Practice program, University of Arizona. Her experiences studying alternative forms of medicine in Japan and India, and then serving as a Healthcare Advisor in the Peace Corps in […]
Sehdia Mansaray
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 […]
Chandler Smith
Chandler has a bachelor’s degree in Global Politics from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and is a Coverdell fellow and Development Practice master’s candidate at the University of Arizona. He has worked in development both in Southeast Asia with the U.S. Peace Corps and in Uganda as the Director of Communication Management for an education […]
Kitakaya Loisa
Kitakaya holds a Master of Development & Communication Studies (Ohio University) and is an International Ford Fellow. He has more than 20 years of experience working in the humanitarian and development sectors. as an innovative and results-oriented expert supporting organizations and governments across sub-Saharan Africa. He has proven technical expertise in international development cooperation focusing […]
