Short Bio:
I am a global cooperation and leadership development professional with an interest in time-tested principles of feminist research and action, gender equity, inclusion, and social innovation that is locally driven, context-specific, and transformative. I value inter/transdisciplinary research that produces actionable knowledge for policy and practice to address complex and protracted crises (climate, care, food, energy). My doctoral research sits at the climate finance and gender equity nexus and seeks to explore power dynamics, and structural inequities in climate finance flows to women-led community initiatives and feminist movements. My research interests also include the role of private foundations and bilateral development finance institutions in advancing feminist agendas and gender-just climate action in the renewable energy access context in low-carbon transitions. My research aims to contribute to novel models of collaboration, partnerships, and hybrid institutional arrangements that put women’s rights and gender justice organizations at the centre, are locally driven, context-specific, and sustainable for systemic change.
