Lauryn Oates

lauryn.oates@gmail.com
Cell: +1 (604) 781-3151

Introduction
Biography
Services Offered
Education at a Glance
Selected Past Clients
Selected Publications and Writing Samples
Samples of Recent Consultancies
Public Speaking Profile
Articles in the Media
Lauryn Oates in the Media

Introduction

Lauryn is a freelance consultant working with non-profit organizations, companies and networks around the world to help them develop their capacity to make social change and to create dynamic, effective programming. She specializes in gender equality, human rights, institutional capacity-building and civil society development. She has a broad client base in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany and her work is carried out in Canada, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. She is based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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Services Offered

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Qualifications

Education at a Glance

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Selected Past Clients

Selected Publications and Writing Samples

Samples of Recent Consultancies

Project Description: WOMANKIND Worldwide - June 2007

Lauryn designed and conducted the Mid-Term Evaluation of the Women's Empowerment Programme supported by WOMANKIND Worldwide in Afghanistan. This was a participatory evaluation undertaken in collaboration with the programme's three local partners, the Afghan Women's Network, the Afghan Women's Resource Centre, and the Afghan Women's Educational Centre. The evaluation included site visits to Kabul, Mazar-i-sharif, Jalalabad (Afghanistan), and Peshawar (Pakistan), extensive interviews and focus groups, a review of the project literature and the preparation of the evaluation report and recommendations.

Lauryn worked with Eclipse Environmental Consulting to undertake a stakeholder engagement process for the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee's first Sustainability Report. Lauryn and Eclipse's director engaged with a large and diverse array of stakeholders to gather constructive feedback on VANOC's report and to feed into planning for the organization's next sustainability report.

Lauryn designed and wrote the content for the website of the Applied Linguistics and Literacy in Africa and the Diaspora Research Network. She coordinates this network, recruiting and maintaining their membership database and publishing the Research Network's four annual newsletters. Network members are actively researching various issues around applied linguistics, literacy, education, multilingualism, reading practice, reading culture, and more in African contexts, and come from Universities in Africa, North America and Europe.

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Telephone: + 604-781-3151
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Public Speaking Profile

Lauryn Oates is an experienced public speaker, having addressed hundreds of audiences across Canada as a keynote speaker, workshop presenter or conference delegate. She is a popular speaker in elementary and high schools, addressing topics such as human rights, youth volunteerism and activism, and gender equality. She has given numerous keynote speeches on the topics of Afghanistan, women's human rights and gender equality, women's rights in Muslim contexts, and human rights in violent conflicts. She is articulate, inspirational and knowledgeable in her professional and academic field and capable of moving listeners to action and solidarity. To inquire for rates and to book a presentation, click HERE.

Sample of Selected Past Clients - Public Speaking

Schools

Lauryn Oates in the Media - Selected Stories