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VANESSA ORTIZ, Director, Civic and Field Relations
Vanessa Ortiz has worked for several international humanitarian organizations
both overseas and in the United States. As Project Officer
in the Resettlement Department of the International Rescue Committee
(IRC), she led a three-year capacity-building project that helped strengthen
refugee community-based organizations in the U.S. From 2003 to 2004,
she served as Special Assistant to the President of Center for Humanitarian
Cooperation, a not-for-profit organization created to assist the international
humanitarian community in developing models for greater cooperation. Her global experience includes
work with Mercy Corps’ overseas office in Kandahar, Afghanistan
in 2002 and the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo, Bosnia’s
post-war civilian peace implementation organization from
1996 to1998.
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