Rachel Katz is a skilled Program Associate currently working at Equimundo since September 2022, with previous experience at the Pan American Development Foundation where responsibilities included managing bilingual program implementation in food security, health, and protection. Rachel has a history of designing gender transformative programming, monitoring multi-million dollar budgets, and coordinating communications among donors and partners. Prior roles include contact tracing for Partners In Health during the COVID-19 pandemic, community health promotion with the Peace Corps, and research and advocacy work with several organizations, including Duke Global Health Institute and the Human Rights Coalition. Rachel holds a degree from Duke University and studied Psychology at Universidad de Sevilla.
Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice
Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice is a non-profit organization and a global leader in promoting gender equality and preventing violence by engaging men and boys in partnership with women, girls, and individuals of all gender identities. Since 2011, Equimundo has worked internationally and in the United States to engage men and boys as allies in gender equality, promote healthy manhood and prevent violence. Previously called Promundo-US, our work was founded in 2011 in partnership with Instituto Promundo in Brazil. Our work was born out of community-based and evidence-based work to engage men and boys in gender equality and non-violent manhood in numerous settings in Latin America, Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and North America. After 11 years as Promundo-US we affirmed our mission to take the promise of an intersectional focus on masculinities and social justice to the next level, and changed our name to make clear our focus on masculinities within and always as part of a social justice framework, and to communicate that message to a broader audience of stakeholders.