Linh Nguyen

Linh Nguyễn is a global development practitioner specializing in gender-responsive program design and evaluation. Originally from Massachusetts, she earned her bachelor’s degree in Health Science from Sacred Heart University. 

Before joining GHD, Linh worked as a case manager at a transitional housing shelter in Oakland, California, accompanying newly arrived Central and South American asylum seekers through their integration process. She also has experience in community organizing, faith-based programming, urban youth development, and international service, including as a Jesuit Volunteer teaching in Chuuk, Micronesia. 

As a Graduate Fellow at Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Linh supports the Women Faith Leaders Fellowship through research, monitoring and evaluation, and gender-transformative program design.

Linh’s lived experiences as a daughter of Vietnamese refugees and her background in the human service sector continue to inform her commitment to inclusive and participatory approaches to global development.

Summer internship

Over the summer, Linh worked as a Gender and Development Fellow with the Aga Khan Foundation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She contributed to the Tuinuke Pamoja program, a multi-year initiative that strengthens the capacity of women-led grassroots groups to engage in economic activities and gender-responsive community advocacy. In this role, Linh collaborated with AKF’s monitoring and evaluation team to conduct data collection and produce an internal implementation report evaluating the impact and operational processes of Tuinuke Pamoja’s Year 1 cycle. She also researched and drafted portions of a donor-facing concept note on sustainable coastal tourism and the blue economy, integrating a community development approach to addressing inequality and environmental vulnerability.