Lara Lambert
Originally from South Africa, Lara serves as the Director of Program Development for Water Mission, leading a team of subject matter experts in WASH service delivery models, financing, behavior change communication strategies, monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning. With 10 years of professional experience within the WASH sector, Lara has provided both technical and program design support in Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Lara holds a master’s degree in both Higher Education and community-based Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation.
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Rebecca Gionatti
Dr. Rebecca Gianotti is a Senior Research Associate with the Global Water Institute at Ohio State University. In this role, she works on issues of water resource management and water access for rural communities, particularly in East Africa. She helps to develop programs and research projects that support local needs and priorities by partnering with communities, researchers, local government, NGOs, and the private sector. Before joining GWI in November 2015, Rebecca completed an M.S. and Ph.D. in Hydrology at MIT, worked as a technical writer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and as an environmental engineering consultant in Australia, and spent time living in Niger, Mexico, and Canada.
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Gillian Winkler
Gillian Winkler is a mission-driven program management and business development professional skilled at developing and nurturing strategic partnerships with public, private, and nonprofit stakeholders to advance sustainable and equitable solutions to global sustainability challenges. She is responsible for Safe Water Network's strategic partnerships and oversees our relationships with international development organizations, foundations, and corporations whose values and interests align with Safe Water Network's mission. In addition, Gillian works with Safe Water Network’s country programs to secure and manage grants, ensuring successful project implementation, and capturing project results to share with donors and other sector stakeholders. Gillian has considerable experience in the global development sector, with country experience in Ghana, India, Argentina, China, Egypt, and Lebanon. Prior to joining Safe Water Network, she worked at Habitat for Humanity Argentina on housing issues and at Creative Associate International on economic growth and workforce development. Gillian received a B.S. in Communication with a concentration in International Relations from Cornell University and a Master of Public Administration from George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School.
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Jeff Jackson
Jeff spent over 5 years working as the program and communications coordinator for a humanitarian engineering nonprofit in central Ohio called Design Outreach (DO). While there are many causes to poverty in developing countries, water is usually central. Because of this, many of the projects that DO focused on were related to addressing the water crisis. Throughout his time there he focused on the accurate and timely delivery of program information to supporters which included media assets and updates on various projects. This at times took him overseas to Haiti and Ethiopia to collect imagery, videos, stories, and data. Previous to his time at DO Jeff, spent time in Cambodia, Ghana, Kenya, and India working with various nonprofits and NGO’s to address issues related to poverty and the water crisis.
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