Margie brings expertise in nutrition, food security and programme monitoring and evaluation. After graduating from Cornell University and University of Connecticut, with specialised studies in nutrition and Maternal Child Health, she initiated her career with the World Food Programme on the Thai-Cambodia border. She then went on to address famine in the Sahel with the Red Cross.
She has completed assignments in over 28 countries with the UN (UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, WFP), non-governmental organisations, US State Department, USAID, U.S. Peace Corps, Red Cross (IFRC) and private foundations (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). Margie supported USAID teams in assessing mission performance in the areas of food security and humanitarian assistance, and worked extensively defining performance indicators and developing strategies, activities and indicators for conflict situations.
Margie designed and conducted short courses and lectures at American, George Washington, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, and Tulane universities around topics of conflict mitigation, humanitarian assistance, malnutrition and public health in emergencies.
She has written and been contributing author to the Practical Guide to the Systematic Use of Standards and Indicators in UNHCR Operations, Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) toolkit, USAID Conflict Toolkits, among other guides and publications.
She currently serves on two boards and operates a consulting business from her home in Virginia.