I’ve been a freelance consultant for many years with skills and expertise in coordination, research, evaluation, training and learning resource development, policy and advocacy. My focus is on gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender based violence and HIV. I am a Salamander Trust Associate and an independent consultant, working collaboratively with Emma Bell and other co-consultants.
My previous jobs have included international and UK-focused roles. Internationally, I have worked for: the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW); ActionAid’s Latin America and Caribbean regional programme; and Beyond 2015, the international civil society campaign to influence the development of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Within the UK community and voluntary sector, I have worked as a participatory action research facilitator for various organisations, and held staff, governance and voluntary roles with organisations focusing on health, SRHR and refugee and migrant rights in the UK, including LIVErNORTH, Shine Young Adult Cancer Support, Streetwise Newcastle, the North of England Refugee Service, NOMAD, and London Voluntary Service Council. I’m involved in Patient and Public Involvement and peer support activities as someone with a chronic liver disease and having had invasive lobular breast cancer.
I’m from the North East of England, and that’s where I regard as home, though I lived in a number of countries in my formative years and as an adult. I am now settled in London. I have a BA Hons in French and Spanish, an MA in Hispanic Studies, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health. English is my first language. I am a qualified translator (Chartered Institute of Linguists) and speak Spanish and rusty French.
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