

Feminine Silence is part memoir, part manifesto, part love letter to the women and men who have shaped me. Across its chapters, I explore what it means to lead as โthe first,โ why meritocracy is not enough, how culture shapes womanhood, and what it will take to build futures that are truly unbound.
After over a decade working across public, nonprofit, and multilateral systems โ from the grassroots to the United Nations Headquarters โ Iโve come to understand that development is rarely about what we do. Itโs about how we think. And whom we center.
This June, I reintroduced By the End of Your Teens โ the first installment in what will be a growing series of reflections on growth, identity, and navigating life as a young person with ambition.
When I moved to New York City in 2022 to join the United Nations, it was both a culmination and an upheaval. I was leaving behind a thriving company I had built โ a life I loved โ and stepping into the unknown in a new country, a new system, with a heavy heart.