EXPERTISE SKILLS & ABILITIES EXPERIENCE. ANU KUMAR

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1 ANU KUMAR EXPERTISE Philanthropy, executive leadership, management and supervision, nonprofit organizational development, strategic planning, communications, fundraising, sexual and reproductive health and rights, global health. SKILLS & ABILITIES Creating strategic partnerships and projects to meet mission objectives Management of relationships between Board of Directors, senior staff, and NGO partners Creation, implementation, and evaluation of grant-making strategies Donor-grantee relationship management including review of donor documents Organizational leadership, management and supervision, mentorship Fundraising, program design, proposal development, monitoring and evaluation, donor relations Strategic planning, organizational development, and meeting facilitation Communications, media, external representation, writing, presentations, public speaking Supervision and management Spanish & Hindi EXPERIENCE Chief Strategy & Development Officer, Ipas 2016-present Lead the process and content for five-year organization plan Oversee all fundraising activities including with foundations, individuals, and governmental donors Guide all communications activities including publications, website, and media Work with international Board of Directors Executive Vice-President, Ipas Grew organizational budget from $14 million to $65 million Grew organization from 9 offices to 16 Oversee 40 staff and supervise 3 senior Directors Started new technical area of work related to communities

2 ANU KUMAR PAGE 2 Engage with an international Board of Directors Serve as spokesperson for organization Ipas is a global health organization that focuses on reproductive health and rights. I serve on the Executive Team which guides the strategic directions for the agency and is responsible for the overall management of the organization. My direct responsibilities include overseeing fundraising, internal and external communications, and leading our community access work. My role involves program design, internal and external relationship building, business development, and I have lead several organizational change initiatives including strategic planning. My technical contributions include pioneering work on stigma starting from the publication of a conceptual framework leading to multicountry research and the establishment of an international network. I have championed the need for woman centered care and programs, the need to work with youth, and work with communities. Senior Program Officer, Population and Reproductive Health Area, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Program Officer, Population and Reproductive Health Area, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Responsible for $12 million in grants Led international site visits by Board members to grantees Developed grantmaking strategies in seven different topic areas Reviewed hundreds of proposals and provided technical support to applicants Developed the Foundation s grant-making strategies in seven topics: sexual and reproductive health and rights in India; global reproductive health and rights; US foreign policy; human rights; population, consumption and the environment; health sector reform; and US leadership in population issue. In addition, I developed monitoring and evaluation frameworks for the Foundation and grantees, organized meetings with influential stakeholders, and made presentations to Board of Directors, staff, and external partners. Social Scientist, World Health Organization, UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme for Research and Research Training in Human Reproduction Organized inter-disciplinary, multi-country research workshop Reviewed research protocols Worked with international panel of technical and policy experts

3 ANU KUMAR PAGE 3 Provided technical support on gender, fertility, and qualitative research methods to social science researchers in low- and middle-income countries. Organized a research proposal development workshop for researchers in South Asia. Served as a resource person for workshops on qualitative research methods, quality of health care for women, and research on the development of a communication device for health workers to improve women's health. EDUCATION Ph.D. M.P.H. M.A. A.B. Anthropology (Focus: Medical), 1992, from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Dissertation: On Their Own Two Feet: Women and Reproduction in Rajasthan Maternal & Child Health, 1989, from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Thesis: Education and Contraception: A Closer Look at Traditional Methods Anthropology, 1988, from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Thesis: Corporate Culture in Caribbean Context Anthropology, 1985, University of California, Berkeley AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS Fellow, Society of Family Planning 2009-present University of Michigan Population Fellowship Rockefeller Foundation Population Sciences Fellowship Fulbright Fellowship (IIE) for dissertation research in India Andrew W. Mellon and Flora Hewlett Foundation Research Resident Award SELECT BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXPERIENCE 2014 present, Society for Family Planning, a professional organization sponsoring research and guidelines on reproductive health care , Lillian s List of North Carolina. I served as Chair of the Fund Development committee and a member of the Executive Committee of this statewide organization that supports women running for elected office in North Carolina , Triangle Community Foundation. I served on the Development committee and was involved in the strategic planning process for the organization.

4 ANU KUMAR PAGE , IntraHealth International. I served as a member of the Finance Committee, Human Resources Committee, Governance Committee, and Executive Committee of this global health organization based in Durham, North Carolina , Center for Women Policy Studies, a national organization conducting research and policy analysis on gender issues for US Congressional leaders and Parliamentarians around the world. RESEARCH & TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2010-present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Maternal & Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Science, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, taught course called Women s Health and International Development, 1992 Instructor, General Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Fulbright Scholar: Dissertation field research in Northern India on female education, the position of women and fertility decisions using in-depth interviews, participant observation, and demographic survey methods Conducted a survey on family planning acceptance in Kanyakumari district South India Graduate Trainee, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Graduate Trainee, Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Wrote and edited Institute journal, designed statewide survey and analyzed results, taught courses on Nota Bene and the Ethnograph. PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS In addition to the peer reviewed publications below, I regularly publish op-eds and post commentary on blogs such as RHReality Check and the Huffington Post. Kumar, Anuradha. Everything Is Not Abortion Stigma, Women s Health Issues 23 (6): e329-e331, Taylor, Jamila and Anuradha Kumar. How Existing U.S. Policy Limits Global Health and the Achievement of Millennium Development Goals to Improve Maternal Health and Promote Gender Equality, Yale Journal of International Affairs, Volume 6, Issue 1, Kumar, Anuradha, Leila Hessini and Ellen Mitchell. Conceptualizing Abortion Stigma, Culture, Health, and Sexuality, Vol. 11, Issue 6, August 2009.

5 ANU KUMAR PAGE 5 Hyman, Alyson and Anuradha Kumar. Defining a Model for Woman-Centered Comprehensive Abortion Care, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 86: , Falk, Sarbaga, Alyson Hyman and Anu Kumar Woman-centered comprehensive abortion care protecting women s sexual and reproductive health and rights. (Russian Family Planning Association) Family Planning Journal. 2003/3: Kumar, Anuradha, Sara Curran, Wolfgang Lutz, and Meryl Williams. Interactions between Coastal and Marine Ecosystems and Human Population Systems: Perspective on How Consumption Mediates this Interaction, Ambio, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp , Kumar, Anuradha. Adolescence and Sexuality in the Rajasthani Context, in Coming of Age: Gender and Sexuality in South and Southeast Asia, ed. by L. Manderson and P. Liamputtong Rice, Curzon Press, Kumar, Anuradha and Carol Vlassoff. Gender Relations and Education of Girls in Two Indian Communities: Implications for Decisions about Childbearing, Reproductive Health Matters, No. 10, November Vlassoff, Carol, Carla Abou-Zahr, and Anuradha Kumar. Quality Health Care for Women: A Global Challenge, Health Care for Women International, 17:449-46, Kumar, Anuradha. "Gender and Health: Theoretical versus Practical Accessibility of Health Care for Women in North India," in Global Perspectives on Health Care, eds. E.B. Gallagher and J.Subedi, Prentice-Hall, ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS In addition to these presentations to academic audiences, I have given numerous presentations in national and international meetings for audiences ranging from young feminists to donors. Community Advocacy Campaigns: Advancing the Reproductive Health and Family Planning Agenda, panel moderator, Global Health Council annual conference, The Facts: Why Unsafe Abortion is a Major Public Health Issue, poster presentation at the ARHP conference, San Diego, Population and Environment in Coastal Communities in Asia and Africa, panel moderator, American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 18, Speaker at Region V Women 2000: Beijing Plus Five event, Women s Rights are Human Rights, Exploring the Local-Global Linkages, December 6, "Paradigmatic Differences Between Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methodologies," Workshop on Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods in Population Research, Carolina Population Center, March 15-16, 1996.

6 ANU KUMAR PAGE 6 "Qualitative Methods and the Study of Gender Relations in India." Population Association of America Conference, San Francisco, CA, April "Female Education and Gender Relations: An Indian Case Study." Presented at the Population Association of America conference, Miami, FL, May "The Dilemma of Choice--The Myth of Agency." Presented at the Population Association of America conference, Denver, CO, May "A Comparative Analysis of Family Planning Programs in Bali and West Java." Fifteenth Annual NCIH International Health Conference, Washington DC, May 1988.