Cristina Manfre

Cristina Manfre is a gender and development specialist with more than 10 years of experience working in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean on increasing development organizations’ attention to gender inequalities in economic growth and agriculture programs. She is a Senior Associate with Cultural Practice, LLC where she provides support on gender integration to a range of institutions including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Lutheran World Relief, and USAID for the Feed the Future Initiative. Ms. Manfre works on a range of issues in the nexus of gender, agriculture, and economic growth including ICT, technology design and dissemination, and value chain development. She is co-author of the USAID handbook, “Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains,” and also conducts gender-related training and research in the areas of agriculture and natural resource management, value chain development, and micro and small enterprise development. She has a M.Sc. in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a bachelor’s degree from Goucher College in French and Spanish.