Jaynice Del Rosario

Jaynice Del Rosario is a Dominican-American gender specialist from New York City. She has built her ten years of project development and management experience in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the United States and Asia. Her international and domestic experience includes grant acquisition and management, program design and implementation, research, client relationship management, and strategy building. She conducted independent research on girls’ lack of access to education in Cameroon in 2010, an issue that has worsened significantly due to Covid-19, and has piloted initiatives throughout Ethiopia focused on girls’ education, sexual and reproductive health and leadership development. As a Program Officer for a philanthropic collaborative supporting community-based organizations in the Global South, Jaynice supports the fund’s program design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and learning in the Dominican Republic, Nepal, Niger and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Working with local program advisors, she helps community-based organizations as they work to end child marriage and early unions in each context. 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 more than 30 countries and has an MPA from Columbia University.