Meet the team
Good learning starts with people who ask thoughtful questions.
Get to know the people and fields of work that inform JRNY’s approach to learning, from research and evaluation to partnerships, gender and peacebuilding.
Meet the peoplePeople & perspectives
Explore each person’s area of work, take a question into your own practice, and follow their professional profile to learn more.
Founder & Executive Director
Teia combines nearly 18 years in humanitarian and development work with research, evaluation and organisational learning. She holds a PhD in Development Studies and brings programme leadership into conversation with research.
What changes when you look at the same challenge through both research and practice?
Consider what the evidence suggests alongside the pressures and choices people face in their work.
Head, Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives
Susanna leads strategic partnerships and initiatives at JRNY. Partnerships invite us to look at how people connect around a shared purpose, negotiate priorities and move ideas into action.
What needs to be shared before people can move forward together?
Look beyond agreement on an outcome. Consider relationships, expectations and the space each partner has to shape the work.
Research and Evaluation
Aryan’s work at JRNY focuses on research and evaluation. This field brings questions about evidence, interpretation and learning into the same conversation, helping us look carefully at how we reach a conclusion.
What does your evidence support, and what is still uncertain?
Pay attention to how information was gathered, whose experience it represents and which other explanations deserve a closer look.
Gender, Armed Conflict, Peacebuilding
Natalia’s areas of work connect gender, armed conflict and peacebuilding. These fields draw attention to the different ways people experience conflict, navigate its effects and participate in change.
How might the same situation be experienced differently by different people?
Consider how gender, safety, relationships and context shape what people can do and what change might mean for them.
Gender and Peacebuilding
Sarah works across gender and peacebuilding at JRNY. This perspective encourages us to consider whose experiences are recognised and who has a voice in shaping peace.
Who has the opportunity to influence what happens next?
Look at who is present, whose priorities are heard and what would make participation meaningful for people who are often left out.
Monitoring and Evaluation
David focuses on monitoring and evaluation at JRNY. This field connects the information organisations collect with the decisions they make as their work develops.
What would you do differently because of what you have learned?
Think about the decision your information needs to support, what would signal progress and when it might be time to adapt.
What connects us
JRNY’s values give these perspectives a common direction. They are also useful questions to bring to your own learning.
Consider who sets priorities, makes decisions and has room to influence change.
Look closely at differences in experience and what those differences reveal about equity.
Use reflection and accountability to question assumptions and adapt as you learn.
Make space for people affected by the work to help shape it.
Ask how an idea, tool or finding can help someone act in their own context.
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