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Hello, I am Janice.
I facilitate collective learning for mission-driven organizations and networks to meaningfully evolve their strategy for equitable impact.

TRUSTED BY PREVIOUS CLIENTS

"The National Coalition on School Diversity had hired Janice and her team at 3x3 to help facilitate a strategic planning process involving members of our coalition, staff, leadership and board. Having worked with other strategic planners in the past, I was pleasantly surprised at the depth of engagement Janice and 3x3 brought to the engagement – really getting to know the coalition’s mission and day to day challenges. We were very pleased with how closely she collaborated with us, unearthed the nuances and tensions in our strategy and facilitated alignment across teams. Janice and her team were not afraid to go back to the drawing board on more than one occasion and find deeper alignments.

The strategic plan was not only reflective of the collective vision of our coalition, but also actionable and strengthening of our work. I would highly recommend Janice as a facilitator to those that seek to bring collective learning and visioning in their strategy and programs."

Phillip Tegeler, Poverty and Race Research Action Council

services

services.

Mixed-Methods Research

Design research
Ethnography
Program evaluation: impact and learning
Policy and landscape analysis
Stakeholder and systems mapping
Qualitative and quantitative research and analysis

Strategy

Participatory, inclusive and collaborative strategic planning
Program design utilizing methods from human centered design (HCD), service design or community-centered design
Developing and implementing context-relevant, iterative and adaptive monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks and processes
Change management

Facilitation

Co-Design or community-engaged design
Experiential and organizational Learning
Community engagement
Awareness-based systems thinking

projects.

Georgiana Ward-Booth, Presencing Institute

"The Presencing Institute hired Janice as an external evaluator for a big-scale leadership development program for the United Nations funded by USAID. She was able to grasp the complexity and nuances of the intervention from the beginning and, when producing the final program evaluation report, demonstrated a solid understanding of behavioural indicators that had been set to assess the initiative's impact. She also showed the capacity to dive deeper into the purpose and objectives of the program, as well as the culture and language of the UN and the participants whose interviews she used as a basis for her analysis. This resulted in a nuanced final analysis. Janice is kind, committed, open-minded, professional and a remarkable team player. Any Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team would benefit from her work and positive attitude."

about.

about me.

Sectors where I have experience:

Education
Civic Technology and Innovation
Refugee Resettlement and Humanitarian assistance
Social Services
Racial and Social Justice
Mental and Social Well-being

Country Experience: I have had the privilege to live and work in the following countries that continue to inform my perspective and inquiry:

Bangladesh, China, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Laos, Myanmar, Rwanda, South Africa, and the United States.

I am a researcher, social design strategist and facilitator in service of social innovation and equitable systems change. I work as an independent consultant, partnering with organizations seeking to learn from and evaluate their strategies and create more innovative or impactful programs. I am motivated by a strong desire to foster learning and innovation that is collaborative, courageous, equitable and regenerative

For the 12 past years, I have led various social impact and innovation projects across multiple fields for example: education for refugees resettled in the U.S. as well as refugee camps, digital financial services to empower emerging market participants, primary literacy instruction for children in low-resource contexts, Digital Public Goods for equitable outcomes, and social services for low-income communities in the United States, to name a few.

Most recently, I worked as a strategist at 3x3, a social impact design consultancy that focuses on bringing stakeholders together to design programs, strategies or initiatives that seek systemic change. Previously, I have worked as a research and innovation consultant with government agencies of New York City, national non-profits, UNICEF, International Rescue Committee, a tech startup in Myanmar and many more. My work and writing have been featured in the World Policy Journal and the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies Academic Space. I hold an MPA in Development Practice from Columbia University and a BA in Religion, graduating with Honors,from Austin College.

I am also a fledgling scuba-diver, practicing meditator, aspiring polyglot, and traveler.

LinkedIn Profile Here.

Education:

Bachelors of Arts (B.A.) in Religion from Austin College
Masters in Public Administration (M.P. A.) in (International) Sustainable Development Practice from Columbia University.

contact.

Hello, I am Janice. I facilitate collective learning for mission-driven organizations and networks to meaningfully evolve their strategy for equitable impact.