Shivonne Logan is an MPP candidate at the Jackson School of Global Affairs, focusing on innovation in international development and humanitarian aid in the MENA region. She is interested in alternative financing mechanisms in development, with a focus on conflict and post-conflict countries and regions, and seeks to explore effective policy around climate-driven migration and conflict. Through the MPP program, Shivonne is working to hone her quantitative analytical skills to improve learning in development and aid projects and, after Yale, she hopes to return to the MENA region to translate these skills into informed policy and advocacy for sustainable development.

Before starting at Yale, Shivonne spent over three years in Jordan working and consulting for donor-funded aid and development projects across the MENA region. She spent the bulk of this time focused on research, monitoring and evaluation, and advocacy, first with iMMAP and later with Integrity Global. Utilizing proficient Arabic and extensive regional knowledge, she led field teams in evaluation and research activities across Syria and Iraq for multiple projects funded by international agencies, primarily USAID. More recently, Shivonne worked directly in implementation as the MENA program coordinator, overseeing project implementation and reporting across Relief International’s five-country regional portfolio.

Shivonne lived in Jordan through the CASA I scholarship funded by the U.S. Department of Education, studying advanced Arabic intensively from 2019-2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic, after being evacuated to the U.S., she completed the program remotely and spent a year working remotely for Palladium International’s strategic growth team in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Stanford University in 2019 with a bachelor's degree in international relations with interdisciplinary honors and a minor in Arabic language and culture, following a post-high school gap year through the National Security Language Initiative for Youth studying Arabic in Morocco.