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As a Program Director for the Girls First Fund, Jaynice supports the fund’s program design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and learning in the Dominican Republic and Nepal. Working with local program advisors, she helps community-based organizations as they work to end child marriage and early unions in these countries.
While in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, she served as National Coordinator of Gender and Development designing and implementing local and regional programs for adolescent girls and participated in the early planning meetings that eventually led to the Peace Corps’ “Let Girls Learn” initiative. She has designed and led education and youth leadership initiatives at The Bronx Institute at Lehman College and at the Sadie Nash Leadership Project, an organization dedicated to the advancement of young women in the greater New York City area.
She is an avid traveler who has traveled to 30 countries and has an MPA from Columbia University.
My favorite part of my job is supporting the women and girls in the Dominican Republic, my birth country; it’s the knowing that in some small way, my privilege and access is benefiting more than just me, and helping girls and women like me access their right to self-determination.
I’ve been to 30 countries so far and I’m really looking forward to going back to Ethiopia and seeing my Peace Corps family; that experience changed my life.
I love extreme sports. I’ve been sky diving, bungee jumping, and white-water rafting, just to name a few. I love the adrenaline rush!
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
This quote has shaped my life in a beautiful way. It reminded me that I have the power to define myself and create myself into whoever I want to be.
