Katherine (Kelly) Case
Kelly Case is Project Director for the Children’s Policy and Funding Initiative at Tides Center and a Managing Director at Strategy for Humanity. She is an expert in domestic and international non-profit management, has vast subject matter and technical expertise, and has worked in a variety of development and conflict settings. Kelly has collaborated closely with and earned the confidence of local leaders and international officials and has demonstrated a deep commitment to ensuring the voices of marginalized communities are heard and their needs met.
Kelly specializes in women-inclusive peace and security processes, trauma awareness, resilience, gender equality, equal access and opportunities for girls and adolescents, and prevention and response to sexual and gender-based violence. Kelly has extensive experience creating and conducting trainings in multicultural settings, heading programs that promote citizen engagement, working with policymakers in countries impacted by conflict, and facilitating greater empowerment for civil society to be agents of change. She also has facilitating multi-stakeholder workshops, designed and implemented monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, managed large programs with teams of national and international staff and multi-million dollar budgets, and identified and helped achieve domestic and foreign policy priorities.
Kelly has worked in a variety of settings focusing especially on women’s political participation and leadership; youth advocacy; full participation of women in peace and security processes such as ceasefires, national dialogues, negotiations and implementation of peace agreements; gender integration/mainstreaming; trauma awareness and resilience; gender-based violence; civil society engagement and mobilization; multi-stakeholder consultations; advocacy strategies and planning; and conflict and gender analysis and resolution. She also specializes in grant writing and management, program management and oversight, strategic guidance and planning, curriculum creation, monitoring and evaluation design and implementation, training and facilitation, capacity building, and research and report writing on a range of gender, peace and security issues.
Previously, Kelly was Deputy Director for Africa programs at Inclusive Security, a DC-based organization dedicated to increasing the inclusion of women and girls in peace and security processes around the world. Collaborating with civil society leaders and government officials, Kelly worked in East Africa to create or improve government-wide strategies for inclusion. In South Sudan and Sudan, for example, she led Inclusive Security’s work to increase the engagement of women in peace processes between and within the two countries. In this role, she provided strategic guidance and planning for programming in both countries as well as building the capacity of women to work together and advocate for more effective peace processes that better address the needs and priorities of the people. She also led advocacy efforts with policymakers to ensure policies reflect the needs and priorities of marginalized communities. She oversaw all aspects of this work including developing and leading training in multicultural settings on trauma awareness and resilience, promoting inclusive peace processes, and designing and implementing systems for monitoring and evaluation, mediation, and advocacy; financial accounting and reporting; and overseeing small grants to women peacebuilders. Kelly also led fundraising efforts; set strategic direction for engagement with policymakers and multilateral institutions; collaborated with partners to promote inclusion; developed and executed a communications strategy; and supervised, mentored, and trained a diverse team of U.S.-based and international staff.
Before joining Inclusive Security, Kelly worked for the American Red Cross’ Investigative Fraud Unit where she pursued cases of waste and abuse in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She subsequently became Special Assistant to the President of Humanitarian Services where she designed and coordinated the restructuring of the organization’s nationwide field network to be more effective and streamlined.
Kelly has also worked with youth to build capacity and agency. With Palestinian and Israeli youth, Kelly led programs to encourage activism and with youth from the Great Lakes region of Africa she collaborated to increase sustainable development and equal access to education.
Kelly holds a Master’s degree in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University, a practitioner certificate from Eastern Mennonite University in strategies for trauma awareness and resilience, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Lafayette College.
Kelly specializes in women-inclusive peace and security processes, trauma awareness, resilience, gender equality, equal access and opportunities for girls and adolescents, and prevention and response to sexual and gender-based violence. Kelly has extensive experience creating and conducting trainings in multicultural settings, heading programs that promote citizen engagement, working with policymakers in countries impacted by conflict, and facilitating greater empowerment for civil society to be agents of change. She also has facilitating multi-stakeholder workshops, designed and implemented monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, managed large programs with teams of national and international staff and multi-million dollar budgets, and identified and helped achieve domestic and foreign policy priorities.
Kelly has worked in a variety of settings focusing especially on women’s political participation and leadership; youth advocacy; full participation of women in peace and security processes such as ceasefires, national dialogues, negotiations and implementation of peace agreements; gender integration/mainstreaming; trauma awareness and resilience; gender-based violence; civil society engagement and mobilization; multi-stakeholder consultations; advocacy strategies and planning; and conflict and gender analysis and resolution. She also specializes in grant writing and management, program management and oversight, strategic guidance and planning, curriculum creation, monitoring and evaluation design and implementation, training and facilitation, capacity building, and research and report writing on a range of gender, peace and security issues.
Previously, Kelly was Deputy Director for Africa programs at Inclusive Security, a DC-based organization dedicated to increasing the inclusion of women and girls in peace and security processes around the world. Collaborating with civil society leaders and government officials, Kelly worked in East Africa to create or improve government-wide strategies for inclusion. In South Sudan and Sudan, for example, she led Inclusive Security’s work to increase the engagement of women in peace processes between and within the two countries. In this role, she provided strategic guidance and planning for programming in both countries as well as building the capacity of women to work together and advocate for more effective peace processes that better address the needs and priorities of the people. She also led advocacy efforts with policymakers to ensure policies reflect the needs and priorities of marginalized communities. She oversaw all aspects of this work including developing and leading training in multicultural settings on trauma awareness and resilience, promoting inclusive peace processes, and designing and implementing systems for monitoring and evaluation, mediation, and advocacy; financial accounting and reporting; and overseeing small grants to women peacebuilders. Kelly also led fundraising efforts; set strategic direction for engagement with policymakers and multilateral institutions; collaborated with partners to promote inclusion; developed and executed a communications strategy; and supervised, mentored, and trained a diverse team of U.S.-based and international staff.
Before joining Inclusive Security, Kelly worked for the American Red Cross’ Investigative Fraud Unit where she pursued cases of waste and abuse in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She subsequently became Special Assistant to the President of Humanitarian Services where she designed and coordinated the restructuring of the organization’s nationwide field network to be more effective and streamlined.
Kelly has also worked with youth to build capacity and agency. With Palestinian and Israeli youth, Kelly led programs to encourage activism and with youth from the Great Lakes region of Africa she collaborated to increase sustainable development and equal access to education.
Kelly holds a Master’s degree in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University, a practitioner certificate from Eastern Mennonite University in strategies for trauma awareness and resilience, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Lafayette College.