Writing & Insights

Ideas in practice.

Perspectives on how people learn, institutions build capacity, and women exercise agency in organizations, communities, and public life.

Areas of Focus

Learning Strategy

How people actually learn at work

What a decade of building enterprise learning systems — across more than 40 countries — reveals about capability, confidence, and the conditions that let people grow.

Organizational Capacity

Institutions that build, not burn out

Reflections on the structures, frameworks, and measurement disciplines that turn ambitious goals into measurable results — in corporations, nonprofits, and public agencies alike.

Women's Agency

From information to meaningful action

Writing on the central question of my work: how do institutions equip women to understand their choices, exercise their agency, and shape the decisions that affect their lives?

Civic Participation

Showing up is a system too

Notes from the ballot box, the county hall, and the community table — and what civic engagement teaches us about designing institutions that reflect everyone they serve.

Public Policy

Workforce policy, in practice

Insights from graduate research on workforce development program implementation — including barriers facing immigrant and limited-English-proficient workers.

Global Affairs

A Liberian-American lens

Perspectives shaped by a life across borders: diaspora communities, international development, and what global work reveals about leadership at home.