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IDEAS THAT WORK.
​​RESULTS THAT MATTER.

Strategy for Humanity works with mission-driven organizations and those who fund them to develop effective strategies, conduct smart advocacy and analysis, and achieve meaningful results. Our highly experienced professionals have a strong record of consistent achievement, effective leadership, and deep content expertise.  We are proud of our record and the extraordinary impact of our clients. 

Our practice is grounded in the belief that how you conduct your work is as important as what you achieve. We recognize that each client is unique, with distinct needs and interests. That is why we design and tailor every step of our process to enable our clients to identify and strengthen their distinctive voice, build and enhance their public profile, develop and implement organizational priorities, ​create and conduct smart advocacy strategies, and achieve and measure impactful results.

Our award winning leadership team is recognized for building collaboration across the political divide, bridging disparate communities, and bringing together distinct sectors to coalesce on a common goal. Whether working on a big or small strategy or developing a bold and new initiative, our approach is rooted in creative problem-solving, finding opportunities, and always being mindful of the interface of organizational culture, mission, strategy and impact.
​Strategy for Humanity LLC is a woman-, minority-, and person with disabilities- owned small business and an equal opportunity employer, making a difference since 2009.

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Partners
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Maria Alexandra Arriaga
Founder & Partner

Alex@StrategyforHumanity.org
Alex Arriaga has served in executive leadership positions at the White House, the U.S. Congress, and both non-profit and for profit organizations.  She has successfully advanced international human rights issues, created large-scale public education campaigns, and achieved legislative victories.  She is a proven leader and strategist with a track record of success in local, national and global arenas.  Alex's specialties include international human rights, humanitarian assistance, gender and gender-based violence, rights of persons with disabilities, rights of children, and policy development and implementation. She also serves in leadership roles on Boards relating to education, disabilities, and refugees.  Read More
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Charles J. Brown
Partner
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Charlie@StrategyforHumanity.org
​​Charles J. Brown, prior to joining Strategy for Humanity, served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Undersecretary for Policy in the U.S. Department of Defense, where he was responsible for implementing the DoD components of the President's initiative to integrate atrocity prevention and response into U.S. policy.  In recent years, Charlie has also served as Chair of the Experts Committee on Preventing Mass Violence, a bipartisan group of sixteen former government officials, academics, think tank experts, and NGO representatives.  Charlie's specialties include atrocity prevention, international justice, human rights, democracy, international humanitarian law, crisis response, foreign policy, diplomacy, social media, NGOs and non-profit management.​ Read More

Directors
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​Ben Batros
Director ​
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Ben@StrategyforHumanity.org
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Ben Batros, a Director at Strategy for Humanity, is a respected litigator who has excelled at using law as a tool for accountability and social change.  He has led litigation strategies for civil society, at international tribunals, and in government. Ben specializes in human rights, international criminal law, climate change, international tax governance, and identifying the optimal use of legal mechanisms in broader strategies. Ben previously was at the Justice Initiative of the Open Society Foundation, focusing on strategic litigation, managing a portfolio of sixty cases, and directing a summer school on human rights litigation.  He also served as Appeals Counsel for the International Criminal Court, Office of the Prosecutor; and he advised the Australian Government on its ratification and implementation of the ICC Statute and on regional strategies to address trafficking in persons. Read More

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​​Kelly Case
Director
Kelly@StrategyforHumanity.org


Kelly Case is a Director at Strategy for Humanity. She is an expert in non-profit management with specialization in women-inclusive peace and security processes, trauma awareness, gender equality, resilience, prevention and response to sexual and gender-based violence, and conflict mitigation. She has developed robust curriculum, led trainings in multicultural settings, and designed and implemented qualitative evaluations. She has worked with policymakers in countries impacted by conflict and facilitated greater empowerment for civil society to be agents of change. Kelly held leadership roles at Inclusive Security where she managed large grants and collaborated with women leaders in peace processes and post-conflict initiatives in Sudan, South Sudan, and other parts of Africa. She also worked with the American Red Cross to manage humanitarian services in the United States.  Read More

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​Sapna Chhatpar Considine
Director

Sapna@StrategyforHumanity.org ​
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Sapna Chhatpar Considine is a Director at Strategy for Humanity. She heads our New York operations and is a key lead on the multilateral portfolio.  Her areas of expertise include United Nations processes and structures, atrocity prevention, responsibility to protect, civilians in conflict, human rights and humanitarian crises, and peacebuilding and sustaining peace. Sapna began her career working at the grassroots level to mobilize students, policy makers and the general public in support of democratic freedoms in Myanmar. 
Prior to joining Strategy for Humanity, Sapna was the co-founder of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP), a global coalition of civil society organizations working to prevent genocide and mass atrocities. Read More

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​Tabitha Mpamira
Director

Tabitha@StrategyforHumanity.org 


​Tabitha Mpamira is a Director at Strategy for Humanity. She is a respected expert, facilitator, and speaker on mental health, sexual and gender-based violence, and survivor resilience. Tabitha’s work has been widely recognized and vividly depicted by Now This in the documentary Victors: Singing to the Lions and through her TEDx Talk focused on the transforming or transferring of trauma. Tabitha was recognized by Global Citizen in 2018 when she won the People’s Choice Waislitz Award. Prior to joining Strategy for Humanity, Tabitha founded EDJA an organization providing free medical, legal, and mental health services to survivors of sexual assault in East Africa. EDJA has sparked rapid change in Uganda by supporting hundreds of survivors and bringing perpetrators to justice. She is pursuing a doctorate in clinical psychology with a specialization in sexual trauma after over 10years of practice. Read More

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Administrative Staff
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Ann Marie Brockhouse
Special Assistant
AnnMarie@StrategyforHumanity.org


​Ann Marie Brockhouse brings more than two decades of expertise in organizational development, personnel support, operations, and administration. Her management experience centers on customer service, organizational functions, financial growth, travel planning, and process improvement. 

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​Cecilia Doy
Accountant ​

Accounting@StrategyforHumanity.org

​​Cecilia Doy provides expert accounting service, including management of day-to-day account records, payroll systems, and more. For over 20 years, she was the managing partner of a small security business located in Maryland. For the past several years, Cecilia has provided a range of accounting services for small businesses, working with the team at CSO Business Services, LLC. 

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​Jenny Kelley

Executive Coordinator
Jenny@StrategyforHumanity.org


Jenny Kelley provides a broad range of administrative support for the Strategy for Humanity team. She has more than 20 years of administrative and management experience in a wide range of industries that include government, financial, information technology, legal, medical, education, and non-profits. Jenny also has extensive public relations and corporate event management experience. 

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