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As a Senior Technical Advisor, she supports the design, implementation and monitoring of high-quality gender-sensitive and nutrition-sensitive agriculture programming. She co-developed CRS’ Couple Functionality Assessment Tool as well as CRS’s indicator that measure changes in women and girls in union decision-making at the project level but can be aggregated up to the institute level She co-developed several CRS’ training manuals including CRS gender analysis toolkit, Integrating gender into Private Agriculture Service Providers, Women’s Leadership for community members, garden toolkit, and agriculture fairs and vouches manual. She co-chaired 2 International Conferences on Integrated Nutrition. Valerie was also a steering committee member of the Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative. Prior to joining CRS, Valerie held several positions at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) including Senior Program Manager for the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) and Program Coordinator of IFPRI’s Nigeria Strategy Support Program (NSSP). She earned her MA in Economics from University of Notre Dame and her BA in Economics and Sociology from Moravian College. She currently lives in Florida with her husband Barry and their 1 children – Berry and Cecilia