Our Certified Network

Adele Halliday is the Anti-Racism and Equity Lead staff at the national office of The United Church of Canada. An experienced anti-racism educator, workshop leader, and award-winning writer, Adele has been involved in anti-racism and anti-oppression work with churches...

After taking my first Global Learning Partners’ (GLP) Dialogue Education course – Learning to Listen Learning to Teach: An Introduction to Dialogue Education – in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2009, I knew that I had found a very effective way to share what I know and as...

Andi Waisman (M.S., Ed.) has a Masters degree in Education and has been working in the field of community education since 1981. She has directed the Education Departments of several family planning agencies (Planned Parenthood of Central Massachusetts, Pro Health in...

Andrés is a Program Officer with the International Budget Partnership, where he works with civil society to make government budgets more open and accountable. He is responsible for data collection and analysis for the Open Budget Survey and provides technical...

Angelina Montgomery (Umpqua) is a US based trainer and consultant, currently serving as Program Administrator for Help Me Grow Alameda County, a program of First 5 Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Angelina develops learning-centered...

Ashraf Tawaha is a consultant in municipal affairs, with a professional experience in both municipal and private sectors (ten years in each sector). Currently he is helping many municipalities to develop their strategic and operational plans and building their...

Aydah has B.A in Sociology, M.A in Social work, and PhD in Sociology and Criminology. She is currently the Director of Princess Basma Centre for intangible Cultural Heritage and, also work as Academic Researcher, Teaching -Civil Education in Al Hussein Bin Talal...

In October 2017, Balqis was appointed Executive Director of the Municipality of Umm Al-Bsateen and continues to serve there today. She has extensive experience developing strategies, including planning the municipality’s first solid waste management plan. She started...

I was born in Suwon, South Korea, and was adopted at seven months old. I grew up with three older brothers. Twenty years later, my parents had room in their hearts to adopt two more children from Asia, for a total of six children in my family. I grew up in a small...

Bethany is based in Brooklyn, New York and has worked with NGOs and community-based organizations serving women, children, and migrant communities in the U.S. and Latin America. As a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) professional, she uses a...

Betsy Barton, MPH is an Educator at Transitions LifeCare in Raleigh, NC. She has been conducting community education about serious illness and end of life since 2010. Like so many others, her experiences with supporting her own family members through illness and death...

Carrie has over 15 years of experience working and volunteering for domestic and international nonprofit organizations in many roles including fundraising, communications, strategic planning, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Led by her insatiable curiosity and...

Chris Cousino has spent his entire adult life living and working in New York City. He began his career literally in the field, as a gardener, and later manager of landscapes, operations staff, and volunteers in the most visited sections of Central Park, for more than...

Cindy Stover serves as the Canadian Justice Mobilizer for the Christian Reformed Church in North America. In this role, she supports Canadian churches and communities through learning experiences, relationship building, and resource development with a concentration on...

Claire works for Food for the Hungry, as Technical Advisor in Social and Behavioral Change. She supports both development and relief programming to design, implement and monitor behavior change strategies across various sectors. Her particular interests are developing...

Claire works with state institutions, civil society actors, international organizations, investors and development partners around the world to advance budget transparency, participation, credibility and accountability norms and practices. Claire is a specialist in...

David Robins is a Program Officer with the International Budget Partnership, where we works with civil society to make government budgets more open and accountable. He is responsible for data collection and analysis for the Open Budget Survey, and provides technical...

Diala Ajlouni is the driving force behind Bank al Etihad’s learning and development initiatives. With her wealth of experience in the banking industry, she has been a valuable contributor to the bank for over 29 years. Despite her success, Diala is dedicated to...

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Elena has been working at the International Budget Partnership (IBP) since 2007. She supervised the Open Budget Survey (OBS) research until 2016, and is now senior technical advisor to the Open Budget Initiative, leading the team’s capacity building efforts and...

Ellen Taylor is the Vice President of Community and Strategic Initiatives for the Humane Society of Charlotte, NC. Her extensive animal welfare career has taken her from coast to coast, border to border, and many points in between for more than 20 years. Ellen...

Erika Rice (she/her) has been working with non-profit health organizations for over 20 years.  Since 2013, Erika has been an educator with the Alzheimer Society in Ontario.  The Alzheimer Society is committed to providing education designed using the Dialogue...

Current Work: Consultant and International Development Expert, involved in programs and projects around the globe bridging the gap between the North and the South through capacity building programs. Certified Master Trainer with United Nations Conference on Trade and...

Faisal Mutalq Al Zawaid is a development planner and trainer with 15 years of experience in planning, managing development projects and launching community initiatives. He has worked as a volunteer with several local and international organizations. He has gathered...

Fariya joined the International Budget Partnership as a Senior Program Officer, Tax Equity in 2019. In her role, she has been leading her initiative’s regional and global work as well as providing strategic support to Tax Equity’s in-country work. Prior to joining...

Frederic Defoy is an ICF certified coach, a consultant and a trainer practicing in France. He graduated from Wheaton College, Illinois, USA. His passion is to contribute to people’s potential for living out their vocation. Frederic discovered DE in College and was...

Gillian Ferwerda serves with Raise Up Global Ministries as Content Coordinator and Trainer Care Coordinator. In this role, she has the privilege of designing content for audiences around the globe. Raise Up Global works predominantly in English, Spanish, and French,...

Hadeel Abu Soufeh has been active in the rights of persons with disabilities (PWDs) for five years. She began her experience in this field by being an active member in a campaign at the University of Jordan to demand the right of education for people with disabilities...

Ms. Hadeel Hatamleh is an instructor and officer in the Education, Outreach and Awareness Department at Petra National Trust (PNT), organization for cultural heritage. She was graduated TOP of her class in her B.Sc. degree in Cultural Resources and Museum Management....

Hamza Atef Al-Smadi is the Director of the Ajloun District Directorate in the Greater Ajloun Municipality. He has a master’s degree in accounting from Ajloun National University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Jerash Private University. He is incredibly...

Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT) Associate Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist (ACAAB) Certified Behavior Consultant-Canine (CBCC) Heather became a Registered Veterinary Technician in 2000 and completed her master’s degree in science at Western Illinois...

Bio Ms. Huda Amareen is a former school teacher for 20 years. Now she is a Training Manager and certified trainer at Petra National Trust (PNT) organization for cultural heritage with a long record in volunteer work and a huge experience in local communities’...

Hussam is a financial analyst and services manager with ten years of professional experience. He has a strong background in working with micro businesses and necessity-based entrepreneurs, and much experience in providing micro businesses with consultancies in the...

J. Mark Bowers writes and trains for the Chalmers Center, a church equipping organization focused on breaking the spiritual, social, and material bonds of poverty. Having lived and journeyed extensively in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, he is also the creator of...

Jane Terrell designs and facilitates courses and workshops in adult learning, both online and in-person. Currently contracting as a workplace learning and professional development facilitator, her areas of interest include train-the-trainer, communication skills and...

Jenny Giezendanner designs and leads workshops in adult learning, especially in Asia, where she is at home. As a translation consultant she also consults, trains, and mentors teams doing translation into their own language for the first time. Her present focus is on...

Inspired by her own life experiences, Jessica has been on a mission to collaborate with individuals and organizations to help people realize their fullest potential and thrive. For years, she has dedicated a large portion of her time focused on improving the life...

Judy Washburn currently serves as the Vice-President for Advocacy for the Christian Education Network of the ELCA. Judy has over thirty years’ experience teaching and training in congregations and schools using the principles of dialogue education and language...

Kamille currently works for Compassion International after working with many Christian non-profit organizations in the developing world and internationally. She has worked in education and program development in Mali, Niger, China, Haiti, and France. Kamille attended...

Dr. Karen Wilk is a ‘Go Local’ Catalyzer and Mission Innovation Team lead with Resonate Global Mission (a ministry of the Christian Reformed Church of North America) and a National Team Member of Forge Canada leading their Neighbourhood Life initiatives and Edmonton...

Khalil holds a bachelor’s degree in business management. Presently, he is the Executive Director of Al-Qreiqa and Finan’s municipality after finishing a six-year term as Mayor there. Khalil has a strong work ethic, is knowledgeable, and has outstanding communication...

Krista lives in UK, in coastal Cornwall with her family and too many animals (according to her husband). Krista is an experienced facilitator, designing and delivering highly interactive, thought provoking and fun workshops with key customers and colleagues. Krista...

As Senior Manager of Improvement Advising at the Pacific Business Group on Health’s California Quality Collaborative (CQC), Kristina supports health care delivery organizations participating in learning collaboratives by advising and training leaders, their...

My name is Lama Kamal. I live in Amman, Jordan with my husband Basil and our three children. I am an architect by education and profession. I have been running my own architecture and design office Schema for the past 15 years. More recently, I have co-founded a real...

Ledia is an urban planner who strongly believes in the human rights-based approach. She is an advocate for local communities, and a program lead skilled in project management, planning, and budging. Ledia has worked in the development sector for over than 10 years in...

Lisa McGlinchy, MPH, is the Senior Manager of Performance Improvement and Training for Commonwealth Medicine, a part of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She received her master’s degree in Public Health/ Community Health Education at University of...

Mais holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Al-Hussein Bin Talal University. Despite her youthfulness – she has only been in this industry for a few short years – she has accomplished a great deal, taking on a variety of tasks and responsibilities and...

Maiss has her BA in Architectural Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), and Master Degree in Architecture from Virginia Tech University, with the Master’s Thesis: ‘Painterly Conception of Architecture’ (also published as a book). Maiss...

My name is María José (Cote) Eva. I am Chilean, and dividing my time between London, UK, and Santiago, Chile. I am currently working as a consultant for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Surge Initiative covering issues on economic, social and...

Mary’s work has been deeply influenced and guided by the principles of Dialogue Education for over 20 years. Mary is currently working as an independent consultant. She received the 2019 Dory Storms Child Survival recognition award from CORE Group (as did GLP founder...

Mary Jane “MJ” first came to know about Dialogue Education through a short introductory course taken at the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement conference in Dallas in 2007. Immediately, she enrolled in “Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach” and the...

Favorite Quote “The more you see the less you know, the less you find out as you go. I knew much more then than I do now” (U2, City of Blinding Lights: 2004) In Brief Matt works with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) as manager for European Field Teams, based...

I’m a Kenyan, raised and schooled in the City of Nairobi in East Africa. Married to Marcy, the most influential person in my life, we have two grown sons who are at different stages of launching their own lives. I serve on faculty at Wheaton College’s HoneyRock,...

Nidal has over 17 years of experience in the municipal sector as a dynamic and strategic thinker capable of developing solutions for functions in his work. He enjoys project management, analyzing opportunities for investment and development in fields such as tourism,...

Raad is the Branch Manager with a vast knowledge in accounting and experience in microfinance through serving clients as well as supervising and managing a team of LOs for seven years at Microfund for Women. Raad has expertise in management, supervisory and leadership...

Education, primarily in Churches and Christian schools, is a consistent thread throughout Russ’ 35-year career. He enjoys facilitating the Kairos Course and serves as a guest lecturer for the Perspectives in World Missions Course. He has taught several college...

Sabal Al-Husban is a civil engineer at Al-Hashimiah New Municipality, in Zarqa, Jordan. She has 5 years’ experience in the public sector, where she worked as designer in the Engineering Services Division and then as a coordinator at the training and development...

Sajeda holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering “Water and Environment Engineering branch”, and a Winner of the King Abdullah II Award for Excellence in Government Performance and Transparency 2020-2021. She is also one of the youngest female municipal executive managers...

Sam Moore was the Director of International Training for The Chalmers Center for Economic Development for the last five years. Sam has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and a M.A. in Intercultural Studies...

Shawna Snow is a Professional Development Specialist living in Long Beach, California. She’s recently relocated back to California after living and working in The Netherlands for 18 years. She learned the Dialogue Education method while getting her Master’s in the...

Reverend Sunitha Mortha has been preaching, teaching, leading trainings, workshops, within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) for over 15 years as Director for ELCA Global Mission Education and Interpretation. During her tenure, she conceived and...

In my role as Senior Director of Shelter Training for the ASPCA, I oversee curriculum design and delivery of ASPCA Meet Your Match® adoption program workshops – including Meet the Adopters, Canine-ality and Feline-ality; SAFER Certification courses; and a variety of...

Teryn has been involved with training animals for over 18 years. She has trained dogs, cats and horses. She has a diploma in Advanced Canine Behavioral Sciences and Feline Behavior Science and Technology. She is a certified pet dog trainer. For years she worked her...

Trisha Viecco Carrillo is the Events Coordinator at the International Budget Partnership. Over her nine years in this role she has coordinated countless meetings around the world for IBP and its partners. She is originally from New Jersey, but has spent her adult life...

My name is Viviana Cornejo (Vivi). I’m originally from Chile. I’m currently living in Michigan, a beautiful state, but I miss the mountains. I work for the office of Race Relations of the Christian Reformed Church researching, writing, facilitating, and preparing...

Will Sibert has worked internationally for the past 30 years addressing the needs of the most vulnerable in the areas of AIDS, peoples displacement, natural disasters, education, leadership training, and large scale information systems. He currently is focused on...