As Trickle Up’s Senior Director of Refugee Affairs, Shoshana Hecker leads the team in providing diverse technical assistance and building institutions and organizations’ capacities to deliver the Graduation Approach for refugees. She has over 20 years of broad range technical and management experience in international economic development, having managed and supported programs around the world, including in Chile, East Timor, Georgia, Honduras, Indonesia, Jordan, Kosovo, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and
Uganda. Based in Washington, D.C., Shoshana’s husband Eric and her one-year old Izidora (Izi) often accompany her on her numerous filed travels. She has an MBA from ESADE in Barcelona, Spain and completed her undergraduate studies at Grinnell College in Iowa.