About: Alyson
- Alyson Wise is the Vital Voices Global Network Communications Coordinator, responsible for coordinating the revamp, re-launch, and maintenance of the Vital Voices web site and for network communications, including the Global Leadership Network Newsletter and online community exchange. In 2006, Alyson was a Vital Voices Program Assistant, working on the Vital Voices of Africa: A Pan African Leadership Summit for Women and Girls and the Fortune-State Department International Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. As a consultant to Vital Voices in 2007, she worked on the Eurasia Leadership Summit, acting as rapporteur for the program's political pillar. In 2007, Alyson was Operations and Grant Administration Assistant with the Nike Foundation in Portland, Oregon. Alyson holds a degree in Africana studies and French language from Sarah Lawrence College. She speaks French proficiently and has studied in France and Senegal, where she conducted field research on human rights education programs targeting the eradication of female genital mutilation in rural West Africa.
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