JENNA HARVEY
Brooklyn
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Research consultant
Sure We Can
01.2023
- Led the development of the first-ever city-wide survey of independent recyclers in New York City.
Global Focal Cities Coordinator
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)
01.2017 - Current
- Senior leadership role, providing overall supervision and direction of WIEGO’s urban advocacy work in Mexico City, Lima, Accra, Dakar and Delhi
- Supervised a multi-disciplinary, multi-generational team of teams – made up of 15 organizers, lawyers, activists, and content experts across five cities and in three languages
- Held direct responsibility for supporting the overall development and cohesion of the team, including through coaching, mediation, and facilitation of reflective practice
- Oversaw the development and monitoring of programming in support of membership-based organizations (MBOs) of informal workers in five cities to secure rights and protections at work
- These programs including training, action research, strategic communications, and advocacy
- Managed an annual budget of around 1 million, raised more than 3.5 million in new grant funding
- Sustained positive, collaborative relationships with key donors, including the Hewlett Foundation
- Represented Focal Cities work on WIEGO senior leadership team and in board meetings, providing input into high-level decisions around strategy, fundraising and human resources
- Developed specialized focus in working with teams on strategy – introducing new tools and facilitating annual in-person learning exchanges to continually refine and strengthen advocacy
- Supported Focal Cities team with long-term strategic planning, overseeing the development of two five-year plans
- Synthesized highly detailed inputs from local teams into accessible written outputs that clearly communicated outcomes and learning from Focal Cities’ urban advocacy work, for a range of audiences including WIEGO team, donors and external partners
- During the COVID-19 crisis, played a leadership role on WIEGO’s global study assessing the impact of the crisis on informal workers in 12 cities
- This included supporting the design of qual and quant research tools and training teams on their use, data analysis, report-writing and dissemination
- Regularly published academic and practitioner-oriented outputs on the informal economy.
Training and Capacity Building Associate
ACCION International
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Played a key role in facilitating learning among Accion’s partner microfinance institutons (MFIs), including through developing a practitioner toolkit on a variety of technical specialty areas, and providing input on training plans.
International Programs Coordinator
The Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD)
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Supported FSD’s network of Nicaraguan NGOs on program design, grant writing, project implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
Education
Certificate in Corporate Strategic Research -
Cornell Institute for Labor Relations
Non-credit course on “Power and Strategy” at the School of Labor and Urban Studies - undefined
City University of New York (CUNY)
Masters in City Planning - Participatory Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Global and Development Studies - undefined
University of California at Santa Cruz
Skills
Facilitationundefined
Fellowships And Internships
- Banco Palmas: PalmasLab, Research fellow, Fortaleza, Brazil, Supported youth researchers at PalmasLab in the design and implementation of a participatory action research (PAR) project
- La Casa de la Mujer, Intern, Tola, Nicaragua, Raised funds for women’s rights NGO to support a local women’s group in the formation of a baking cooperative in a high poverty rural area
- Fulbright U.S Programs, Fullbright Grantee, San Jose, Costa Rica, Conducted a research project focused on urban informality, gender, and Nicaraguan migration in La Carpio, Forged a partnership with Fundación Mujer, a San-Jose based microfinance NGO
Publications
- Informal workers have the tools to build better cities post-crisis—will governments listen? Next City
- Waste pickers remain resilient during the pandemic. Nacla
- Covid-19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities. International Labour Review. Wiley Online Library
- How cities can support informal workers: Covid-19 and beyond. WIEGO blog
- Knowledge co-production with and for organisations of informal workers: Building democratic capacity for social change. Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy
- The COVID-19 crisis: income support to informal workers is necessary and possible. Development Matters, OECD
- Informal workers on the frontlines of Covid-19: Providing critical services without adequate protections and pay. WIEGO blog
- Realising rights for homeworkers; An analysis of governance mechanisms. Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
- Decent work for homeworkers in global supply chains: Existing and potential mechanisms for worker-centered governance. The Global Labor University
- Supporting Informal livelihoods in public space: A toolkit for local authorities. Prepared by WIEGO for the Cities Alliance Joint Work Programme for Equitable Economic Growth in Cities
- Homeworkers in global supply chains: A review of literature. WIEGO Resource Document No. 11
- Homework, gender, and inequality in global supply chains. UN Women
- Inclusive public spaces for informal livelihoods: A discussion paper for urban planners and policy makers. UN Women
- The Informal Economy in Arab nations: A comparative perspective. WIEGO paper for Arab Watch Report on Informal Employment in MENA Region
- Towards a transformative agenda for women’s economic empowerment. WIEGO blog
- Arab watch on economic and social rights informal employment. Arab NGO Network for Development
- Literature review: Technology and the future of work. WIEGO
- Deepening Democratic Capacity through Collective Inquiry: Community-led Research at PalmasLab. Unpublished manuscript. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Boston, USA
- Contributor to UC Atlas of Global Inequalities. University of California Press and Myriad Editions
Volunteer Experience
New Sanctuary Coalition, Volunteer, 2019, 2020, New York City, NY, Worked with asylum seekers to document their asylum claims and provide English-Spanish translation with legal teams, Worked with teams of lawyers and asylum seekers to edit, translate, workshop, and finalize asylum applications
Timeline
Research consultant
Sure We Can
01.2023
Global Focal Cities Coordinator
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)
01.2017 - Current
Training and Capacity Building Associate
ACCION International
01.2012 - 01.2013
International Programs Coordinator
The Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD)
01.2011 - 01.2012
Certificate in Corporate Strategic Research -
Cornell Institute for Labor Relations
Non-credit course on “Power and Strategy” at the School of Labor and Urban Studies - undefined
City University of New York (CUNY)
Masters in City Planning - Participatory Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Global and Development Studies - undefined
University of California at Santa Cruz
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