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GDN Volunteers and Interns

GDN has always depended on people giving their time freely. Many people work away in the background and members may never get to know them. This page presents a few of the people around the world who do voluntary work, sometimes as interns, for GDN.

GDN Volunteers

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	Guia Faglia is an architect from Italy. She has been working on youth, education and adventure in Italy, on children rights with Roma refugees from Kosovo in Montenegro and, in the last six years, on gender-based violence in Northern Uganda. She has just completed her Master of Laws in Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights at Keele University – UK, focusing on violence against women and hetero-patriarchy. She is now collaborating with GDN on a UNDP project designing Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction Regional Trainings.
Rachel Gordon Rachel is pursuing dual Master’s degrees in international affairs and urban & environmental planning at the Fletcher School/Tufts University in Boston, MA, USA. Her studies focus on the gender(ed) aspects of disaster risk reduction and human and environmental security, as well sustainable community-building after disasters. Previously, Rachel worked in risk and crisis management and oversaw undergraduate international education programs at World Learning and American Jewish World Service, both U.S.-based NGOs. She holds a B.A. in History and International Studies from Macalester College. In her non-academic time, Rachel can be found singing, playing the upright bass, dancing and hiking.
	Kevin McBriarty - as a student at Northumbria University I have been studying on the MSc in Disaster Management and Sustainable Development at Northumbria University, UK. My focus has mainly been centred around Ethiopia and I have been lucky enough to get an internship with CARE where I will research gender aspects of food insecurity. For my MSc work placement, GDN was a natural choice, in which I searched for UNDP African Region materials. In Ethiopia it is difficult to know where to start, but with 50% of the population discriminated against then gender must be top priority.
Ros Houghton gained her doctorate from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. She has been organizing regular Gender and Disaster Workshops at the Australasian Hazard conferences which run alternately between New Zealanad and Australia. Ros helps moderate the GDN listserv.
	Margarete Hofbauer is studying for the MSc Disaster Management and Sustainable Development at Northumbria University, UK.
Jose Chaconis an expert on international development and works in Central America with local organizations focusing on public policy on risk manegement. He also gives support to national NGOs and local organizations capacity building on risk management. He helps GDN translate its documents from English to Spanish and vice versa. Jose provides professional translation services for businesses and NGOs, please visit Global Links for more information.
	Princy Yesudian is a demographer from India, currently working at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India. Currently she is also pursuing a doctoral research (PhD) in labour studies at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune, India. Her areas of interest are gender, reproductive health, and labour economics. She has volunteered to translate GDN resources in Tamil.
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Yvette Ramos was part of the GDN delegation in the Global Platform in 2009 and has been active with GDN ever since. She has an MBA and and Msc in Engineering and consults for the UN, NGOs and the private sector. Yvette has both Portuguese and French nationalities. She works in Geneva and lives in France with her husband and three kids.