• Expert Board Member. Meet on a quarterly basis with Meta policy team, academics, policy makers and civil society on issues including banning and reinstating Meta accounts.

• Gave feedback on the Actor Behaviour Framework (policy criteria and workflow)

Gender and AI Research Lead. Among other projects, I have:

• - Led the design of ChatGPT prompts to analyze gender inclusion and intersectionality using GBA+ (client: Government of Canada). See https://merltech.org/hey-chatgpt-what-is-missing-from-our-reports-a-generative-ai-use-case-for-public-sector-merl/

• - Co-designed a framework to evaluate AI proposals for the Innovation Fund for Impactful AI (client: GSMA). See https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/connectivity-for-good/mobile-for-development/gsma-innovation-fund/the-gsma-innovation-fund-for-impactful-ai/

• - Co-led training for senior managers on AI in evaluation (client: World Bank Independent Evaluation Group)

• - Co-leading the Gender, AI and MERL Working Group, with monthly meetings on evaluating gender in AI, as well as how AI is being used to evaluate gender inclusion. For more, see here: https://merltech.org/key-takeaways-from-our-first-gender-ai-and-merl-working-group-meeting/

2025 Cohort:

• - Taught UX & Digital Development with Dalberg Design guest lecturer

• - Capstone Adviser to two Masters groups:

AI & Healthcare in India | Client: Booz Allen Hamilton

Smartphones and low-income women farmers in Kenya | Client: One Acre Fund

Lead, Mastercard Foundation Scholars Collective

• Co-ordinating the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Collective of seven women PhD students enrolled at African universities. See here for more: https://caribou.global/projects/the-pan-african-women-phd-scholars-collective-in-ai-livelihoods-2/

• The collective will publish an edited volume of pieces on their research topics in AI and youth livelihoods.

I am a senior research director, with experience managing large cross-country qualitative user experience research projects. Budgets have ranged from $100k to $800k at the Web Foundation. I am an O1 (extraordinary ability) visa holder for the USA and legally authorized to work in the US

• Facilitator, Gender and AI Funders Collaborative, convening quarterly meetings between major bilateral and philanthropic funders in the Gender and AI space.

• Research lead: Qualitative user research on women gig workers in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria, funded by Mastercard Foundation

• Co-Project lead: Qualitative user research on migrant and refugee experiences of ID in Chile, Ecuador and Peru, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank

• Project lead: Women, digital ID, work and payment in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (funded by Australia's DFAT, with GSMA and the World Bank) (2019)

• Project lead: End user experiences of digital identities in Cote d'Ivoire (funded by the World Bank) (2018)

• Project lead: Children, youth and digital identities: a four country study (funded by UNICEF) (2018)

• Project lead: Digital identities and lower-income demographics in India (funded by Omidyar Network) (2017/2018)

• On judging panel for Female Focused Fintech (F3) Prize for DFS Lab (Digital Financial Services)

• Invited facilitator for USAID's Women Connect Challenge co-creation workshop for Round 2

Experienced in writing project proposals, building and leading multi-country research teams, project and budget management, qualitative research and writing up findings in an accessible way!

• Previous research at Caribou was on Digital lives in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda (for MasterCard Foundation) - http://cariboudigital.net/digital-lives-ghana-kenya-and-uganda/

• Other Caribou clients I've worked with include Pivotal (Melinda Gates's private foundation); Women's World Banking and DfID.