Nidhi Tandon
Principal consultant and trainer
Email: Nidhi at networkedintelligence.com
+1 416 538 7398

Nidhi Tandon is originally from East Africa, and is the Director of Networked Intelligence for Development. Nidhi works on local grassroots issues, in the context of globalization and increasing disparities between peoples and nations.

She designs and runs grassroots training workshops for women’s organizations, small business and farmer communities in East and West Africa and in the Caribbean, enabling women to organize and articulate their priorities around sustainable development. Much of her work revolves around the relationships between women and water, energy, natural resources and policy decisions. More …

Sarah Murray

Sarah Murray has a long-standing commitment to human development and passion for empowering women and youth globally. She has a proven capacity for high calibre social policy research, impact evaluation and project management. Sarah’s experiences have led to education, work and travel in over 35 countries across 5 continents.

Sarah has strong research and evaluation competency, combined with effectual analytical thinking. Her graduate thesis assessed implementation issues and the cost-effectiveness of new biomedical HIV/AIDS prevention tools. Sarah’s research roles have spanned a diverse range of issues including gender, livelihoods, health, information communication technologies (ICTs) and sustainable environs. Recent research and policy analysis with NID included assessing gender mainstreaming materials and examining the use of ICTs in relation to climate change for women organic farmers in the Caribbean. More …

Shannon Pritchard

Shannon Pritchard has twelve years of progressive Canadian and international experience in Project Management, with a proven ability to effectively manage business relationships, interpret needs, discern priorities and deliver results. Shannon has worked for NID in Africa and the Caribbean in various capacities including presenter at a national IT training workshop, ICT trainer for women entrepreneurs and researcher on various projects.

Fluent in English, French and Spanish, Shannon has a Master’s in Project Management and a B.A. from Queen’s University in Spanish and Latin American Studies and Political Science.

Dorienne Rowan-Campbell

Dorienne Rowan-Campbell has been working on a wide range of women, gender and development issues for more than 30 years. Her organic farming experience has widened the emphasis to include questions of export, access, business management, ICTs and organic production. Based out of both Canada and Jamaica, which affords a useful “bifocal” world vision; she works as an independent development consultant. Dorienne owns and manages a small, certified organic farm and produces Rowan’s Royale Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. She is a qualified organic crop inspector, Board Member of the Jamaica Organic Agriculture Movement and interim Vice Chair of the fledgling Caribbean Regional Organic Agriculture Movement (CROAM). More …

Racquel Smith

Racquel G. Smith is a political economist whose areas of focus within international development are international trade, governance and civil society, gender and diversity issues. Her technical areas of interest and expertise include organizational capacity development, business and proposal development and strategic communications. She hones a special interest in participatory programming, monitoring and evaluation that emphasizes organizational learning and personal empowerment.

She currently works as a consultant with various community-based and international change agents. She has previously worked with MATCH International, the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), the Inter-American Development Bank and Grameen Foundation, among other organizations. She is also principal consultant of Good Partners, a network of young development professionals who bring together people, multidisciplinary expertise, and cutting-edge ideas for a greater good. More …

Erich Vogt

Erich Vogt is based in Washington D.C., he is a media development consultant designing media and communication visions, strategies and programs for NGOs and multilateral and bilateral development agencies. More recently he has been providing climate change policy advice to multi-lateral institutions, regional development banks and international NGOs. More …