Core Team
Karen Austrian
GIRL Center Director
Angel Del Valle
Country Representative
Nicole Haberland
Senior Associate
Evalin Karijo
Associate Director, Policy, Partnerships, and Engagement, GIRL Center
Meredith Kozak
EGER Project Manager
Mame Soukeye Mbaye
Research and Program Officer
Brian Medina
Project Coordinator, GIRL Center Regional Hub
Dela Nai
Associate I
Arindam Nandi
Associate II
Sharon Nashipae
Coordinator, GIRL Center
Sangram Kishor Patel
Senior Program Officer II
Miriam Temin
Lead, Evidence Based Practice
Fatima Zahra
Associate I
The GIRL Center brings together the Council’s foremost thinkers on adolescent girls across 50 countries with expertise in diverse research methodologies and issues.
External Research Collaborators
- Emma Chikovore, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Jeremiah Chikovore, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
- Justin Dansou, University of Parakou, Benin
- Kelly Hallman, Indigenous Justice Circle, United States
- Caroline Kabiru, African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya
- Blessings N. Kaunda-Khangamwa, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Tia Palermo, University at Buffalo, Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) LLC, United States
- Zewdneh Sabe, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and based in Ethiopia
- Simona Simona, University of Zambia
- Aditya Singh, Banaras Hindu University, India
- Oluwaseyi Somefun (Seyi), University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Learn more about our External Research Collaborators.
