Jena Santoro

Miami-based freelance consultant in the field of sustainable global development. I have several years' experience as an independent consultant for both and based institutions, both for-profit and nonprofit. My research areas of expertise within the broader economic development sector include, but are not limited to, the following: urbanization, urban resilience, and global cities, climate risk and natural resource conservation, domestic resource management, good governance, and institutional capacity building, informality, inequality, and poverty, distribution of wealth and resources, and integration of rural and coastal communities in national development strategies. I am interested in researching how forced migration interacts with all of these various components or "root ; I have worked with many bilateral agencies such as the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), and the Department for International Development (DFID), as well as non-governmental agencies in the such as the Institute for International Political Studies in Milan, Sapienza University of Rome, and the Meditteranean Agronomic Institute of Bari. I am seeking independent consultancies or project-based contract positions which can be conducted from Miami, Florida,