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Professional Experience related to Disability

  • Coordinator of the Disability Rights & Climate Justice Advisory Board, Global Greengrants Fund (starting in July 2022 to date). 

  • Consultant for Global Greengrants Fund to advance the inclusion of people with disabilities in their grant-making activities towards environmental justice. From October 2018 to June 2022. 

  • Consultant for Climate and Land Use Alliance - Baseline Assessment on inclusion of disability their grantmaking activities.

  • Co-Investigator - Access to shelters for persons with disabilities who wish to break cycles of intimate partner violence. Université de Montréal (Since June 2021, ongoing). Leader of the Project - Martine Lévesque, PhD. 

  • External Consultant - Ford Foundation - Regional trainings on anti-ableist grant making practices. (Ongoing)

  • Senior Researcher - Concordia University - AIM LAB (Access in Motion - Decolonizing, Anti-Ableist Research on Media Production). (January-April 2022)​

  • Co-Investigator and Coordinator of outreach and policy advocacy activities - Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme. Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism - McGill University, Faculty of Law. (April 1st, 2020-November 30, 2021). Visit the DICARP website for more details. 

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  • Consultant - Institute for the International Institute for Child Rights and Development. Activities - 1. To develop the Background Paper on Emerging Issues on Children and Adolescents with Disabilities that will serve as a basis for Collective Impact to develop the Disability-Inclusive Strategy at UNICEF. 2. International Consultations with children with disabilities to inform the Disability Inclusion Strategy, in coordination with Royal Roads University. (November 2021 - May 2022). Credits and final version of UNICEF DIPAS.

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  • Consultant for the Université de Montréal – Access to shelters for women with disabilities trying to break a cycle of domestic violence. From March 1st to date. Main Researcher: Martine Lévesque, PhD.  

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  • November 15 2019 - Training workshop: "Comment soutenir la réussite et l'inclusion scolaire des étudiants en situation de handicap ?" - Journée de formation - L'association québécoise inter-universitaire des conseillers aux étudiants en situation de handicap (AQICESH).

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  • From January 12 2012 through December 31st 2015: Program Officer for LAC and MENA regions and Strategic Partnerships at the Disability Rights Fund and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund – Distance work from Montreal, for the Boston-based Disability Rights Fund and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund. Responsibilities consisted in: oversight grantees’ work in Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Haiti and Lebanon, and in international projects involving the gender and disability, including the promotion of sexual and reproductive rights in the ASEAN region (joint project with the ASEAN Disability Forum and CREA); the Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network, and Kenya (DeafQueer Kenya). Job included representation activities, organization of Grantee Convenings, Outreach meetings, networking, conferences, papers and strategic design of grantmaking plans.​

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  • Course Lecturer - "Gender and Disability" - McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. Details

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  • Director of the Quebec Association of Post-Secondary Students with Disabilities (Association québécoise d’étudiants ayant des incapacités au postsecondaire, AQEIPS) Montreal, Quebec, from June 21st, 2009 through January 2012. Duties: representation, networking, research and general management of the association. Among the most recent activities, we are completing a comprehensive guide for post-secondary students with disabilities with information about existing measures to promote equal opportunities in education. Available in www.aqeipsguide.org (continuously updated).

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  • Grants Consultant for Latin America – Maternity leave covering. Disability Rights Fund. From April through October 2010.

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  • External consultant of the Japan Program of the Inter-American Development Bank. Distance working from Montréal, QC. External Consultant for The Japan Program of the Inter-American Development Bank, (Working from Montreal, Qc., for the Washington, D.C. IDB Headquarters) Starting in April 1st, 2005 through December 31st, 2005.

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  • Internal consultant of the Japan Program of the Inter-American Development Bank. Washington, D. C. Objective: Organization of a high-level seminar on inclusive development. The aim of the seminar was to gather high-level officials and representatives from grassroots organizations from East and South East Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, exchange good practices to ensure the inclusion of disability in the development agenda in both regions. I held this position from January 2004 to January 2005.

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  • Coordinator of the Diagnostic Research: Mujeres y Discapacidad en Mexico (Women and Disability in Mexico), for the National Institute for the Women, Mexico City, November, 2001-December, 2002. Printed Version: 2003. (Responsible for the documentary and field research and the writing of the final document).

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Objective: To write a document that could serve as a basis for the promotion of the theme of disability in the governmental policies oriented to the improvement of the situation of the Mexican Women. There are various versions of this basic information package, including those for the elaboration of forums in five basic themes: health, family, human rights, education and labor integration.

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