Deborah Rubin, Ph.D.

Deborah Rubin, Ph.D., is a senior social development analyst focusing on gender analysis, helping to integrate gender-sensitive framework, policies, and practices in programs for USAID and other development organizations. She has significant experience working with communities in Tanzania and Kenya, gaining in-depth knowledge of the lives of rural men and women. Deborah has served as a team leader for gender assessments and gender trainings throughout her career, with her overall efforts focusing on improving gender integration in development. She recently developed a training program to integrate gender into agricultural value chains for USAID and published a handbook on the methodology. It is being used in several USAID missions to design new food security programs. She has led efforts to improve gender integration in USAID programs and policies, as team leader for multiple gender assessments and the only full gender audit in Africa. Deborah is the Director of the private women led consulting firm in Washington, D.C., Cultural Practice, LLC. She has a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Brown University.