Women Enabled International

Challenges

  1. Design and build the first Strategic Communications function and department within the organization.

  2. Lead strategic communications to advance intersectional advocacy for women, girls, and gender-diverse people with disabilities

  3. Drive organizational positioning across global gender equality and disability rights ecosystems through narrative change, stakeholder engagement, and movement-building.

Solutions

    • Architected and executed 19 (and counting) communications plans and narrative campaigns that elevated organizational profile across international platforms—UN forums (CSW, CoSP, COP), Skoll Forum, Global Disability Summit, and major feminist spaces and projects (AWID, UAF-FA, Women Deliver)– in different topics such as intersectional feminism, conflict and humanitarian crisis, climate change, amongst others.

    • Positioned organization as catalyst for systemic change at the intersection of gender and disability rights.

    • Led evidence-based stakeholder analysis identifying communications gaps and opportunities, driving organization-wide strategic transformation.

    • Built scalable infrastructure combining in-house expertise with strategic partnerships.

    • Built a multi-cultural communications team by creating 2 new positions and increased non-communications in house capacity by partnering with our Development department to streamline funder communications and engagement.

    • As part as our capacity strengthening communications efforts, I designed and delivered a training to partner organizations, including organizational partners like Women Deliver.

    • Designed an integrated project management and editorial governance systems enhancing teamwork, cross-functional collaboration, accountability, and strategic alignment across programs and areas.

  • Leading multi-year strategic planning initiative to shift narratives at the intersection of gender and disability—Everything is a gender and disability issue–, including "100 Stories on Feminist Disabled Leaders" as one of the main strategic initiatives for 2026-2029. Amplifying thought leadership and programmatic impact across constituencies from grassroots to international policy-making spaces.

    • Designed and executed a comprehensive engagement strategy for 4,700+ participants from 160+ countries at the Global Disability Summit.

    • Used communications and in-person activations to build cross-movement solidarity with feminist organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) and allied movements through integrated communications frameworks combining advocacy, grassroots mobilization, and strategic space-making.

Work Samples

The following is intended to be a representative, albeit not exhaustive, sample of work that has been successful during my tenure as Director of Communications at Women Enabled International.

Women Deliver 2026: Change Calls Us Here

Led the execution of an online and in-person engagement strategy that reached over 6,000 people from 189 countries at Women Deliver. My holistic communications framework attracted close to 150 feminist disabled changemakers to our Preconference, and engaged about 70 feminists with disabilities at the gender and solidarity meet-up. This strategy resulted in coverage by main media outlets such as @feminist, Girl Up Mexico, and Feminismos del Sur.

On the left: Leading the Gender and Solidarity Meet-Up at Women Deliver, 2026

Gender on the agenda at GDS!

Women at the WEI booth at GDS

Partner Spotlight at GDS, April 2025

  • Designed and executed a comprehensive engagement strategy that reached 4,700+ participants from 160+ countries at the Global Disability Summit (April 2025).

  • I used communications and in-person activations to build cross-movement solidarity with feminist organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) and allied movements through integrated communications frameworks combining advocacy, grassroots mobilization, and strategic space-making.

WEI’s Impact on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights!

I work with Development and Strategy team to create funder specific content that conveys the power and scalability of our work as feminist with disabilities and allies.