Keetah Salazar-Thompson has more than 10 years of experience in international development. She is currently Coordinator for the USAID Administrator’s Action Alliance for Preventing Sexual Misconduct, where she is helping lead USAID’s efforts to address sexual misconduct, harassment, exploitation, and abuse. Prior to this, she led strategy development, scenario planning, and program cycle capacity building for USAID’s Middle East Bureau. She also previously served as USAID’s Senior Desk Officer for the West Bank and Gaza and as the Afghanistan donor coordination lead in USAID’s Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, which included a detail as part of the State Department’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Prior to that, she supported the joint USAID-Millennium Challenge Corporation Threshold Programs, a $400 million portfolio spanning more than 18 countries. Before joining USAID, Ms. Salazar-Thompson worked with the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, part of the U.S. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI). Ms. Salazar-Thompson holds a Bachelors of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS ‘06) and a Masters of Arts in Latin American Studies (MALAS ‘08) from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She is an avid reader, gardener, and tea drinker.
Keetah Salazar-Thompson
Coordinator, Action Alliance for Preventing Sexual Misconduct, Office of the Administrator
USAID