Jennifer Collins-Foley

Chief of Party, GROW

Jennifer Collins-Foley, EnCompass' Chief of Party for the GROW activity. She is a learning and sustainable development specialist with a proven commitment to transformative collaboration and knowledge sharing about what works to advance human rights, democratic governance, and human dignity and development. She brings 25 years of experience managing projects and teams, leading program design, management and evaluation, and learning design and training delivery initiatives. Ms. Collins-Foley specializes in a variety of core content areas, including democracy, human rights, civil society and good governance, education, and peace and security. As a trainer, she brings significant experience developing and delivering creative curricula and workshops that leverage the impact of adult learning engagement and peer learning environments. As World Learning's lead author of the Transforming Agency, Access and Power (TAAP) Approach and Toolkit, Ms. Collins-Foley built a collaborative and inclusive learning network on inclusive development, resulting in an interactive manual that supports development practitioners to integrate participatory approaches and context sensitivity and analysis throughout the development program cycle.

Ms. Collins-Foley has extensive global experience, having provided capacity building, training, technical assistance, and analytical support in 18 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern and Central Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. She holds a BA in Political Science from St. Michael's College and a JD from Albany Law School.