Senior Analyst, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
Southern Poverty Law Center, United States
Lina M. Romero Rodríguez, MA in Global and Sociocultural Studies. Currently working with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a Senior Specialist in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL). Lina (she, her, ella) is an applied sociologist who uses social research, and program monitoring and evaluation to inform better social intervention initiatives from decolonial and emancipatory perspectives. Lina is facilitating the Southern Poverty Law Center process to design and implement its MEAL system responding to their scope of work in the Deep South. Before joining SPLC, she worked with different development programs funded by the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of State, and the National Endowment for Democracy. Also, she had social research roles in her home country, Colombia, to inform policy design and implementation focused on environmental justice issues, and gender equity and inclusion. She holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, a master's in Sustainable Development Projects from Universidad EAN de Colombia, and a master of arts in Global and Sociocultural studies from Florida International University. As a Latina woman, migrating as an adult to the United States, residing on seized homelands of the Tequesta, Seminole, and Miccosukee peoples, and born and raised in the ancestral lands of the Mhuyscas people of South America, Lina recognizes how her positionality shapes her understanding of social research and evaluation practices. She shares her global south-lived experience as a social transformation example while also benefiting without her desire from the hierarchical privilege structure that supports racialized capitalism. As a social researcher, Lina deeply values participatory action research and has a deep commitment to using knowledges as a tool to dismantle the racialized capitalism matrix of oppression.
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Friday, October 25, 2024
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST