Our Secure Future Team
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Cynda Collins ArsenaultFounderCynda Collins Arsenault is the founder of Our Secure Future: Women Make the Difference and works hand in hand with the team to provide strategic vision to the program as a part of One Earth Future. She is the co-founder, Board Chair and President of Secure World Foundation, an operating foundation working for the... more |
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Sahana DharmapuriDirectorSahana Dharmapuri is the Director of Our Secure Future, a program of One Earth Future Foundation. From 2006-2016 she was an independent gender advisor on gender, peace, and security issues to USAID, NATO, The Swedish Armed Forces, the United States Institute for Peace, International Peace Institute, and other... more |
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Erin CooperProgram ManagerErin Cooper is a Program Manager with Our Secure Future. She graduated from the University of Denver with a Master’s in International Studies with specializations in Security and Human Rights focusing on human trafficking, human security and... more |
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Hannah ProctorWPS Project SpecialistHannah Proctor is the WPS Project Specialist with Our Secure Future. Previously, she worked at Women In International Security (WIIS), focusing on states’ National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security and the role of sexual and reproductive healthcare in the WPS agenda. Hannah also served on a WIIS panel on... more |
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George Koichi WongOffice CoordinatorGeorge Wong joined OEF in July of 2020 and is the office coordinator for Our Secure Future. He studied International Relations and Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, and received a master’s degree in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University. His educational interests varied from public... more |
Fellows
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Miki JacevicFellowMirsad “Miki” Jacevic is a seasoned peacebuilding practitioner, with over 25 years of work on issues of conflict prevention and resolution, Women, Peace and Security, and transitional justice. He has collaborated with OEF and OSF over the last years to help shape programming to elevate women’s leadership on... more |
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Hans-Joachim HogrefeFellowHans Hogrefe is a foreign affairs, human rights, humanitarian affairs and government-relations consultant with more than 23 years of experience working in senior positions in the US Congress, the US Executive Branch, and the NGO community in Washington, DC. For 13 years, the German-born Hogrefe served the... more |
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Jolynn ShoemakerFellowJolynn Shoemaker focuses on gender equality in international peace and security. She has worked with numerous non-profit organizations engaged in policy-relevant research, advocacy, and training on Women, Peace and Security and women's leadership. Ms. Shoemaker is a contributing writer for Ms. Magazine, focusing on... more |
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Ambassador Donald SteinbergFellowDonald Steinberg recently stepped down as president and CEO of World Learning, an international nonprofit organization that provides education, exchange, and development programs in more than 60 countries. For more than 80 years, World Learning programs have helped empower new generations of global leaders to... more |
Advisory Committee Members
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Elmira BayrasliAdvisory Committee MemberBayrasli has taught in the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program in New York City for the past four years. She is the co-founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted and the host of Project Syndicate's podcast, Opinion Has It. She... more |
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Susanne E. Jalbert, PhDAdvisory Committee MemberAs a veteran global activist, Dr. Jalbert has employed economic development as an essential tool towards a more equitable, safe life. Living at the nexus of conflict and development by working with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), her work includes: diplomat in Afghanistan,... more |
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Ambassador Steven McGannAdvisory Committee MemberC. Steven McGann is the Founder of The Stevenson Group, a Washington, DC consulting firm that provides global solutions for economic growth and security. Ambassador McGann previously was Deputy Commandant and International Affairs Adviser of the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource... more |
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Eliza WolosonAdvisory Committee MemberEliza Woloson is an anthropologist and entrepreneur. She is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Women Have Wings, a human rights award established in 2012 from the selling of Amelia Earhart's Electra 10-E sister-ship. To date the award has honored fifty-one women of courage from around the world. In 1998... more |
Former Interns
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Caroline MeserveIntern(2016-2017) Caroline Meserve graduated from St. Olaf College with a B.A in political science and economics in 2016. She spent her junior year studying abroad at the London School of Economics. Caroline previously interned for an NGO working to combat human trafficking and for U.S. Senator Michael Bennet.... more |
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