Investigated and provided analysis on human rights violations in development projects funded by U.S. government agencies and International Financial Institutions. Interacted with government officials to facilitate community engagement during the World Bank’s Spring Meeting. Advocated to strengthen World Bank safeguards and coordinated with a coalition of social movements, civil society organizations, indigenous communities, and grassroots groups to ensure that development finance institutions respect, protect, and fulfill human rights.

At the World Bank, I contribute to a project that provides objective measures of business regulation and enforcement across 189 economies, and encourages economies to compete toward more efficient regulation. I am responsible for reporting and analyzing Haiti’s legal framework, practices, and implementation gaps to evaluate Haiti’s policies on the business and political environment. The project produces a report intended to provide information to the private sector to support their efforts to devise strategies and solutions to commercial and investment initiatives. I also have experience in the World Bank’s legal department and Sanctions Board Secretariat, where I focused on governance and anticorruption. I conducted extensive legal research and writing on anti-corruption strategies to feed into policy development and improve anti-corruption responses from the Bank and handled cases involving allegations of corruption in procurement and contract execution related to World Bank projects. I also participated in a multidisciplinary inter-unit working group on drivers of corruption that analyzed and produced policies to provide operational solutions on anti-corruption.

Drafted, presented, and advocated for a United Nations (UN) resolution project about resolving intrastate conflict, co-represented IMTD in meetings with Embassy officials, and reported on U.S. government hearings and UN conflict-resolution principles.

Contributed to the creation of a self-sustaining financial empowerment program for widows, helped to implement and maintain an agricultural irrigation project, organized a “day against child abuse” event, and observed the ICTR in Arusha, Tanzania.