Diane La Voy

Senior Program Officer

Project Coordinator, CERCA (Civic Engagement for Education Reform in Central America)
Global Education Center

Education: Master in Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Expertise: policy and practice of participatory development, institutional and civil society strengthening, human rights, US Congressional oversight and advocacy.

International Service: Latin America (Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela); brief TDY service in: Senegal, Egypt, Russia, Central Asia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia

Recent Positions: International Development Consultant Adjunct professor, School of International Service, American University

Director for Organizational Development, Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation

Senior Policy Advisor for Participatory Development, USAID

Search manager, White House Office of Presidential Personnel

Representative for Chile and Argentina, Inter-American Foundation

Selected Publications: “Has Popular Education Been Mainstreamed?” – organized and led panel presentations at Annual Conference of Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), 2004

Participation at USAID: Stories, Lessons, and Challenges; anthology of selected papers, presentation summaries, case studies, and resources, USAID, 1999.

Several analyses of US intelligence performance and issues published by US House of Representatives and by US Senate, including U.S. Intelligence Performance on Central America: Instances of Concern, 1982.

“Foreign Nationals and American Law,” Social Science and Modern Society, 1977.