Started by the founder, a newsletter on livelihoods and economic empowerment – i.e. the means to safely attain the necessities of life. Geared toward the global LGBTQ+ movement to inspire new frontiers of advocacy: let’s make economic development work for us. A cache for all things queer, development-focused, and in search of the good life.

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With the Center for Values in International Development, the founder also serves as a Senior Advisor and gives regular support, guidance, and technical insights to its staff. The Mission of the Center is to be a catalyst for making moral clarity matter in international relief and development.

Additionally, he is working with organizations and UNDP in the Caribbean to launch (first-ever) roundtables with governments, economists, the development banks, and the private sector to create data-driven policies on LGBTQ livelihoods.

The founder is also part of numerous international research efforts, notably measuring the impact of COVID on marginalized groups globally, as well as working to break academic silos and foster multidisciplinary research across sectors on diversity and inclusion throughout Europe.

The founder has worked with 3 of the multilateral development banks - internally and externally - to ensure greater inclusion of LGBTQ people and other marginalized groups in their development agendas.

With the World Bank, he helped lead the creation of their LGBTQ portfolio, being at the forefront of articulating homophobia and transphobia as economic development imperatives. Overall, he generated USD 1.2 million for research and programs, spearheaded inclusive policies within the lending process, conceptualized research strategies, and conducted first-ever trainings of staff - all culminating in 3 awards from the Bank’s President, Vice President, and Senior Directors.

Recently, he’s worked alongside the Inter-American Development Bank and successfully ensured that its Safeguards Framework meaningfully included LGBTQ people and issues. Currently, he’s also part of a larger effort to do the same with the Asian Development Bank.

The founder has worked extensively with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) by directly managing a multi-million dollar grant in support of a global network of diverse business owners.

Prior, he was the recipient of 4 research grants from Sida as well as the development agencies of Norway, Denmark, and Germany, all geared toward measuring the socioeconomic impact of exclusion and systemic human rights abuses.

With the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, the founder directed its global division and oversaw a multi-million dollar public-private sector grant, and managed a global network of 14 organizations while launching work in India, Jamaica, and Ecuador. He created partnerships with the UN, OAS, development banks, private sector, and 9 governments. For example, he conceived and executed an M.O.U. with the OAS Secretary General and launched a partnership on analytics and business empowerment.

Additionally, he launched 3 global conferences and co-organized the Canadian government’s first-ever LGBTQ trade mission to the US. For this, his work was awarded by Arn Culture & Business Pride in 2019.

The founder has also worked on numerous international programs that fostered food security, agricultural development, and anti-poverty outcomes.

At the World Bank, he worked with the Global Agriculture Food Security Program and liaised with a global coalition of civil society stakeholders that guided its portfolio. Additionally, he worked on a global program to promote nutritional standards within agricultural development lending, especially as it pertained to women’s access to nutritional services.

He has also undertaken research on urban agriculture and how it can promote local economic empowerment.