She came to YTC the way the Alliance's best leaders do — as a U.S. State Department fellow, through the Community Solutions Program with IREX, 2024–25. The same door Eslien Tsuses and Prosper Tornyi walked through. Before that: three refugee-assistance centers and eighty-plus international volunteers at the Poland–Ukraine border; communications across nine international offices; education programs documented in rural Yucatán.
Strategy and operations for YTC's international STEM programs across seventeen schools. Thirty-plus staff, fifty teachers and coordinators, twenty active volunteers — with the training, monitoring, evaluation and accountability systems that let a volunteer-powered organization deliver every week.
Fifteen-plus proposals written and six grants secured — more than 45% of YTC's organizational budget — and grant-funded programs above $50,000 managed while the network grew.