Emily is a highly motivated, creative and versatile leader, experienced in designing innovative and impactful solutions to empower adolescent girls and women. A gender equality specialist by training, Emily has nearly twenty years’ experience working with both the public and private sector designing and delivering organisational strategy, women and girls’ rights programmes, and gender-focused funds.

Emily is passionate about feminist approaches to social impact and transformational change work and has been a thought partner to numerous INGOs, bilateral donors and private foundations. Emily has recognised expertise on adolescent girls’ and young women, specifically focused on life skills and education, economic empowerment, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender and social norms. She has applied this expertise to design and lead innovative programmes; advise and support the development of new funding strategies; develop and refine conceptual frameworks, theories of change and M&E frameworks; support mixed-methods research projects; deliver training and capacity strengthening support;  and to co-create and implement gender and social inclusion integration strategies for a range of international organisations and programmes. 

Over the years, Emily has sat on numerous funding committees for the FCDO and USAID and has held various senior advisory roles for Plan International, CARE, the Girl Effect, and the Girls’ Education Challenge providing leadership, management and mentorship on gender equality programmes and policy work. Emily led the ‘Introduction to Gender Theory’ course for the first cohort on the Masters Gender and Development programme at the University of Rwanda where she had the honor to work and learn alongside some of East Africa’s most prominent gender equality advocates. Emily has a MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation from the London School of Economics.