Jen is currently embedded in the USAID Dominican Republic Program Office as a Program Design and Learning Specialist, where she supports the Mission’s monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) processes, and carries out capacity building efforts related to activity design, localization, and managing for results.

Jen has more than two decades of experience in international development, with subject-matter expertise in program design, monitoring, and evaluation, as well as rule of law and security sector programming. Prior to joining Program Cycle Mechanism (PCM), her work with USAID included research, evaluation, and capacity building related to complexity aware-monitoring and evaluation, collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA), and localization. Jen also has significant experience working with the State Department, having led multi-year evaluations of the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs’ Caribbean Basin Security Initiative and Central American Regional Security Initiative programs, and the Counterterrorism Bureau’s global programming in 13 countries. Jen’s fieldwork experiences include many of the Caribbean Basin and Central American countries, as well as Bangladesh, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Peru and Tunisia.

Jen is passionate about elevating the role of local voices and communities in the development process and championing learning practices to help organizations improve people’s lives.