Leland Fellow: Giselle Aris »
6th Class, 2011-2013
Field Placement: Land O’Lakes, Inc., Arusha, Tanzania, and Harare, Zimbabwe
Giselle is working as the Microenterprise and Gender Specialist for the International Development Division of Land O’Lakes, Inc. In Tanzania, she is designing an intervention strategy and developing materials and trainings to build the capacity of 60 new and existing input supply businesses and linking these businesses to smallholder farmers in the dairy value chain. These are being put into practice in the project’s three implementation zones: Arusha/Kilimanjaro, Tanga and Mara. Giselle is also designing a training program for 180 sales agents in these three regions. In all her work, Giselle is responsible for identifying, implementing and documenting strategies to effectively integrate women in the dairy value chain.
Pre-Fellowship Education/Experience:
Giselle Aris graduated from the University of Oxford in 2009 with an MPhil in International Development. Her Master’s thesis examined different forms of agricultural cooperatives and their effectiveness in tackling poverty in the rural developing world. Giselle conducted her fieldwork for this thesis in the Cordillera Mountains of the Philippines. Prior to attending graduate school, Giselle worked for the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations, the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, and Women’s Campaign International. Giselle has also worked in Ghana at the Center for Democratic Development and conducted fieldwork in South Africa for her bachelor’s thesis on language policies and education systems. Giselle spent the two years prior to becoming a Leland Fellow working in southern India as Convener of the Navachetana Dairy Initiative, an innovative, farmer-focused social enterprise that now works with over 2,000 women farmers. Giselle played a leading role in designing, managing and scaling this enterprise.
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