Project Management and Consultants
Given the complexity of responder-perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse (RP-SEA) in conflict-affected and fragile contexts, a diverse multidisciplinary collaboration committed to EDIA principles is essential to ensure comprehensive and actionable results. Participants will contribute expertise in areas such as SEA, humanitarian crises, peacekeeping, women, peace, and security, sociolegal studies, psychology, disability, masculinities, LGBTQI+ rights, respondent-driven sampling, mixed-methods and qualitative research, and sensemaking.
Adelaide Akuetteh
Project and Finance Administrator​
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Adelaide supports project coordination, financial management, and administrative operations. She holds a master’s degree in Conflict Studies and has over eight years of experience in safety, security, and stakeholder engagement. Her experience includes collaborating with diverse actors and supporting the implementation of policies and processes that promote accountability and effective coordination.
Her work focuses on conflict dynamics, human security, and protection challenges in humanitarian settings. She has engaged with research on transnational violence, gender-based violence, and sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping contexts, with particular attention to how institutional structures and power dynamics shape access to protection and justice. Her interests include accountability, protection frameworks, and the experiences of vulnerable populations in conflict- affected environments.
Jessica Montagner
Research/Project Manager​
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Jessica Montagner is the Research Manager for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Queen’s University, overseeing research operations and administration in partnership with Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC).
With a strong foundation in research ethics and project management, she leads the coordination and administration of a diverse portfolio of studies. Jessica specializes in optimizing workflows and fostering collaboration across academic, clinical, and institutional teams, ensuring the department’s research portfolio is delivered with operational excellence, ethical rigor, and meaningful impact.
Mary Wickenden
Disability Consultant
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Mary Wickenden is an anthropologist leading research on disability within international development at the Institute of Development Studies, UK. She has a particular interest in exploring the lives and perspectives of adults and children with disabilities and their families using qualitative, inclusive, participatory approaches, including arts based creative methods.
Her work is mainly in South Asia, East , Southern and West Africa. Areas of focus and interest include: inclusive employment, inclusive education, community based inclusive development, identity and intersectionality, sexuality, violence, abuse and neglect, working with the most marginalised and excluded groups and mainstreaming of disability aspects across sectors in research and in policy and action.
Ashton Drew, PhD
Data Consultant
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Dr. Ashton Drew is the owner of KDV Decisions North (Yukon, Canada).
Her team helps organizations make complex decisions by combining expertise in natural and social sciences with data analytics, workshop facilitation, and software development.