Introducing team UNGEI

Amalia is the Programme Associate who supports UNGEI’s administrative work.  With a background in administrative support and operations, Amalia has worked in UNICEF, UNDP and UNFPA.  Amalia holds a BA in French literature and culture.

Jeyda is a digital communications specialist who supports UNGEI’s digital advocacy and communications work. With a background in graphic design, digital marketing and web development focused on social impact work, Jeyda has worked with organizations in Europe and South East Asia which support projects and activities to achieve social goals and help promote positive change.

Jeyda holds a BA in Digital Media Art from London South Bank University.

Sujata coordinates the Global Working Group to End School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV), a network co-hosted by UNGEI in partnership with UNESCO.

Prior to joining UNGEI, Sujata worked on UNICEF’s girls’ education and gender equality portfolio. She served as Education Advisor, Emergencies with Save the Children UK where she supported country education teams to design and develop education programmes in fragile and conflict affected contexts.

Sujata has also worked with the Red Cross, managing school and community based psychosocial support programmes and teacher development in India and Indonesia. Sujata has had the privilege of working in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti and South Sudan. She holds an MSW from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), India and MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University and is a native of Assam in northeastern India.

Gloria is a policy advocacy and gender adviser for the UNGEI Secretariat. Working collaboratively with UNGEI team members and partners, she is working to advance UNGEI’s policy advocacy and communications agenda. Gloria is also leading on UNGEI’s learning mandate, facilitating the exchange of knowledge and evidence.

Gloria has previously worked for CAMFED and the World Health Organization, and has travelled to Togo and Kenya to support development projects. She is a passionate feminist activist and enjoys writing and travel.

Gloria holds a BA in Arabic and French from the University of St. Andrews, and an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics.

Nora heads the UNGEI Secretariat. Before joining UNGEI, she led the education policy team at the Canadian International Development Agency.

From 2003, she served as a senior education specialist for CIDA’s Asia Programme. Prior to her time at CIDA, Nora worked for multilateral organizations, NGOs, educational institutions and government ministries with a focus on education and gender issues, including extended residential assignments in Vietnam, Belize, Bangladesh and Indonesia.

In Canada, Nora has worked as a senior policy analyst for the Status of Women Canada, taught children and adults and managed community-based literacy programmes.

Nora holds an MA in International Affairs from the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, and a MEd from the Ontario Institute for the Studies of Education, University of Toronto.

Natasha is UNGEI’s youth engagement adviser. She works to shift the power dynamics for youth to fully participate in all processes in achieving gender equality in and through education. She is a facilitator, mobilizer and organizer. She believes in the power of partnership.

Natasha has previously worked with organizations such as Plan International, Plan International Canada and CODE. She is a young feminist activist and works to build a global sisterhood of solidarity. She is the co-founder of @Catcallsofottawa part of the global Chalk Back movement, which fights street harassment through street art. Natasha has experience in young feminist movement building, campaigning and policy advocacy.

She holds a BA in International Development with a minor in Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa.

A proud feminist and educationist, Sarah leads advocacy and communications for UNGEI. As such, she coordinates the partnership’s public-facing work including digital advocacy, campaigns, learning and events. 

As a serial volunteer with a longstanding zeal for international development, Sarah is a fierce advocate for girls' education, gender equality and enterprise of the socially aware, system changing variety. Before joining UNGEI, she managed communications for the international NGO CAMFED – Campaign for Female Education, and was the founding trustee of the Edna Adan Foundation – supporting education and maternal health in Somaliland, East Africa.

She holds a BA in English Literature, an MPhil in Educational Research and a PhD in International Education from the University of Cambridge. She has lived, worked and studied across four continents.