After the lengthy sizzling days of summer season, fall has at all times include the sense of recent beginnings at Ladies’s World Banking. This sense of beginning one thing new is especially robust this yr for our group as we forge forward within the completion of the technique that can drive our work for the following a number of years. We’ve additionally been fairly blessed this yr in that we now have been in a position to develop our group, furthering our capability within the technique, operations and communications areas of our work.
So who’re the brand new faces at Ladies’s World Banking?
Thiviya Navaratnam
Thiviya joined Ladies’s World Banking as Compliance Affiliate. On this position, Thiviya offers important help in procurement, contracts and marketing consultant transactions. She beforehand labored on the Ralph Lauren Company and is at present pursuing a Masters in Improvement Economics at Fordham College’s Worldwide Political and Financial system Improvement program.
Why did you wish to work at Ladies’s World Banking? My household is from the villages of Sri Lanka and I’ve at all times been all for working in growth in the direction of economically empowering susceptible residents of creating international locations.
What excites you about working at Ladies’s World Banking? I’m excited to observe the progress of the funding in the direction of analysis concerning digital monetary providers in Nigeria, since it’s expertise with the potential to assist hundreds of thousands of these in want.
What’s a shocking truth about you? I’ve been sorted into Ravenclaw at Hogwarts.
Yashmin Fernandes
Yashmin Fernandes joined Ladies’s World Banking as a Supervisor for the Improvement and Strategic Partnerships Crew. On this position, Yashmin develops and maintains strategic relationships with companies, foundations, and authorities businesses to help Ladies’s World Banking in reaching its mission and increasing its funding base. Her earlier expertise contains advertising and technique positions on the US Justice Division, CEB, Accenture, Wachovia and TD Ameritrade. She has additionally consulted for Malaria No Extra and the Clinton Well being Entry Initiative. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Worldwide Politics from Georgetown College’s College of International Service and an MBA from Duke College’s Fuqua College of Enterprise. She volunteers for Taproot, TEAK Fellowship and The Denan Mission.
Why did you wish to work at Ladies’s World Banking? I’m obsessed with Ladies’s World Banking’s mission and consider that investing in girls is a vital step in furthering growth and equality. I’ve three daughters (ages 7, 5, and a couple of) and it’s necessary that every one women around the globe have the identical entry and alternatives that I attempt to supply my daughters.
Please share a couple of phrases about work you might be at present doing or a challenge Ladies’s World Banking is engaged in that excites you. I’m at present centered on constructing our pipeline of potential donors and companions, and serving to to develop processes that enhance effectivity and additional collaboration. I’d like to think about myself as a matchmaker – connecting exterior organizations to the suitable providing at Ladies’s World Banking to assist additional our mission.
What’s a shocking truth about you? I went sky diving as soon as and liked the sensation of floating by way of the air. For the following few years, I had this inexplicable urge to leap out of the window each time I took a flight.
Kerry Stephens
Kerry Stephens joined Ladies’s World Banking as a Advertising and marketing and Proposal Writing Specialist for the Data and Communications workforce. On this place, Kerry leads grant, advertising and proposal writing initiatives and manages the associated processes for the group. She tells our compelling story of serving to low-income girls construct stronger monetary futures for themselves and their households to potential companions and funders. Previous to becoming a member of Ladies’s World Banking, Kerry labored at Verint Methods, Inc. as a Proposal Supervisor and at Xerox Company as a Technique & Communications Supervisor. She acquired her undergraduate diploma from Alfred State Faculty.
Why did you wish to work at Ladies’s World Banking?
I liked the thought of being a part of a bunch of sensible and passionate individuals that actually care about their work. And, after all the mission itself – empowering girls – is profoundly necessary to me.
Please share a couple of phrases about work you might be at present doing or a challenge Ladies’s World Banking is engaged in that excites you.
There are thrilling alternatives forward for Ladies’s World Banking to make a better influence than ever earlier than. Proper now I’m engaged on making a proposal growth course of that can streamline how we collaborate and current our concepts to funders. It takes enter and experience from each space of our group and it’s been inspiring to see how a lot care and diligence is given to the whole lot we do.
What’s a shocking truth about you?
In my spare time, I really like taking connoisseur cooking lessons.
Nithyashree Sharma
Nithyashri Sharma joined Ladies’s World Banking as a Specialist on the Technique workforce. On this position, Nithya helps the event and implementation of the group’s strategic plan. Previous to becoming a member of Ladies’s World Banking, Nithya labored as a Senior Marketing consultant at BluePrint Analysis Group and as a marketing consultant at IMS Consulting Group. She acquired her BA in English and Economics from Dartmouth Faculty, her MBA from the Yale College of Administration and her MA in Worldwide Improvement Economics from Yale College.
Why did you wish to work at Ladies’s World Banking?
Due to the group’s mission and the chance to be a part of the work to serve low-income girls around the globe.
Please share a couple of phrases about work you might be at present doing or a challenge Ladies’s World Banking is engaged in that excites you.
I’ve the chance to intently help the event and implementation of 2017+ strategic plan for the group and play a job in shaping the strategic route of the group going ahead.
What’s a shocking truth about you?
I’ve visited all 7 continents on the planet.
