Nancy has 20-years’ experience managing large-scale, overseas development projects. A proven practitioner in positive youth development, Nancy has designed projects to support vulnerable youth including community asset mapping, preventing violent extremism, psycho-social support, and scholarship programs promoting girls’ education, English learning, and entrepreneurship skills.

She has served as AMIDEAST Country Director in Jordan and as Chief of Party for a USAID-funded vocational education project in Macedonia. She has backstopped large USAID-funded programs such as the $75 million Education Reform Program in Egypt and the Revitalizing, Innovating, Strengthening Education (RISE) program working in earthquake affected areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) in Pakistan. From proposal design through startup and implementation, she managed the $23 million USAID YouthPower Jordan activity and the $9 million USAID-funded Kosovo Up to Youth project.

Before working in international development, Nancy worked at Harvard University’s Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Trinity College and a Master of Arts in International Relations from Boston University.