Lisa Woods, UNICEF Consultant - Portraits, Series I

Lisa Woods: Portraits of a UNICEF Communications Consultant (and recent grad): Southeast Asia was Ms. Woods' stomping ground as she worked for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) as a communications consultant in many capacities. Ms. Woods has contracted with UNICEF Lao PDR, UNICEF Cambodia, UNICEF China, UNICEF EAPRO and UNICEF ROSA as a communications consultant for many projects. Ms. Woods has researched projects for UNICEF offices on topics ranging from emergency preparedness to general communications projects on child protection, education and basic health and nutrition.

Before working as UNICEF communications consultant, Ms. Woods, a United States national, worked for ADRA Asia as a consultant during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. While in Bangkok she began her first assignment as a communications consultant for UNICEF ROSA, at its regional office in Kathmandu. One assignment evolved into many, and the UNICEF consultant decided that she needed more education to develop her expertise in social science research. In 2008 Ms. Woods completed her last UNICEF consultancy and relocated to London to attend post-graduate school. She completed school in 2009 and although she is no longer a communications consultant for UNICEF, she hopes to find other research and communications consultant (and permanent) positions in the field.