Jennifer Collins-Foley is a democracy, governance, and inclusive development specialist with 25 years of experience in democracy assistance, capacity building and training, gender integration and program design and management. Collins-Foley currently serves as the Senior Advisor for Inclusive Development for World Learning, a non-profit organization advancing leadership through education, exchange and development programs in more than 60 countries. Collins-Foley works to position World Learning’s Civil Society and Governance portfolio to effectively promote and draw from the full contribution of all voices in society in the political, social and economic life of their countries. This includes groups typically marginalized from political, social and economic power, such as women, people with disabilities, LGBT persons and religious and racial minorities. Collins-Foley also serves as senior practitioner faculty with the SIT Graduate Institute Master’s in International Sustainable Development program in Washington, DC where she teaches Issues in Sustainable Development, Program Design and Management and Gender, Human Rights and Development.
Collins-Foley served as Senior Gender Advisor for two years for Juarez & Associates before transitioning to World Learning. In 2012 Collins-Foley served as a senior advisor for women’s political empowerment with the Karama Arab Women’s Regional Network, based in Cairo, and assisted in the formation of the Libyan Women’s Peace Platform. Collins-Foley’s management and training experience includes senior positions in international and US governance and technical assistance organizations including the National Democratic Institute (NDI), Juarez and Associates (J&A), the Center for National Policy (CNP), the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters and the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), as well as consulting with the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), the Pew Charitable Trusts, World Learning, CEDPA and Vital Voices. Jennifer has worked in Azerbaijan, Burma/Myanmar, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Libya, Mauritania, Palestine, Russia, Uganda, Ukraine and the US.