Dynamic trilingual youth and peacebuilding expert with 14 years experience (six years with USAID) seeking consulting or remote-based opportunities. Strong expertise in writing.
Experience includes: civic engagement, youth empowerment, gender, human rights/reconciliation, environmental conflicts, integrating ethnic and religious minorities, as well as youth and other vulnerable populations. |
 Contact Stephanie Hilborn
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Area of Expertise: |
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Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
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Communications, Media, Knowledge Management, Editor
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Fundraising, Business Development, Grants Writer
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Human Rights, Law, Migration, Conflicts, Justice
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Social, Education, Gender, Youth, Child
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Professional Experience: |
I offer a wide background working as a donor/policymaker, implementer, grant writer, editor, capacity building trainer and youth advocate. My main interests are finding solutions for real world development contexts and working with the population rather than for them to empower sustainable solutions. It's about rebuilding social cohesion and communities' participation as part of a social contract that possibly collapsed or never existed.
Professional experience: Project design, management and evaluation for USAID projects (including designs within and outside of USAID for youth projects, peacebuilding, citizen security, protection and anti-trafficking), four years as a certified COR/AOR for USAID, cross-sectoral project integration, international advocacy on human rights issues, interpretation/translation (Spanish), fundraising, as well as communications and outreach on various international development topics including health, economic growth, democracy and governance and humanitarian assistance. Additional direct trainer/teaching experience includes leading trainings/workshops and courses on international affairs/globalization, advocacy, and communications with young women and men. I am also a skilled grant writer and out-of-the-box thinker for how to develop or redesign projects based on impact results.
Professional interests: Encouraging innovation and attitude shifts in society, addressing the role of trauma in identity and civic engagement, rebuilding trust within communities, empowering local organizations for sustainable development, gender dynamics, chronic violence and its impact on social cohesion.
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Education: |
My undergraduate work was on identity issues, international relations and social sciences coupled with humanities and languages building a broad base from which to approach multiple development contexts. I focused on European identity, extreme political parties, and human rights.
My Master's focused on nationalism and ethnicity, human rights protocols, international humanitarian situations and conflict in the Middle East, Balkans and Africa. My dissertation focused on minorities within Iran, human rights, the tipping points for social change and the trend for past revolutions as predictors of future indicators. It looked at models for ethnic integration and state identities such as France and Spain and other developing world models.
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
Working in Georgia, before, during and after the conflict with Russia shaped my ability to approach and address real scenarios for projects and listen to beneficiaries' issues to help bring about lasting achievements in their lives and address their own healing process.
I began teaching yoga in Bosnia to help those affected by the war as a vehicle for empowering them and improving social dynamics and peace.
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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Years of Experience:
10-15 years |
Highest Qualification:
Masters |
Languages:
English, French, Spanish, German, Bosnian, Georgian |
Nationality:
United States
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LinkedIn Profile:
www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniehilborn
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