Moira Donovan

Age: 24

Home Town: Parma, Ohio

Education: B.A in Political Science from The Ohio State University

Specific Field Interests: Refugee Resettlement

Placement: AIF-Communications, Gurugram, Haryana

Area of Focus: Communications for Social Impact

Fellowship Project: Strengthening AIF's brand positioning and enhancing the organization's reach and impact across disenfranchised communities in India by employing new media, communication, and marketing tools that elevate visibility, and cultivate momentum towards its forthcoming 25th Anniversary.

Highlights: Moira is serving as an American India Foundation (AIF) Banyan Impact Fellow with the TeamLease Foundation in Gurgaon. She will enhance AIF’s visibility in preparation for its forthcoming 25th Anniversary milestone. In 2020, Moira graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Immediately after graduation, she served as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer for one year with a local refugee resettlement agency in Columbus, Ohio. While maintaining a variety of projects, Moira developed the administrative and institutional capacity of the organization. After her service ended, she remained with the agency for a year as their Communications Specialist. For the past two years, she has been working as a Grants and Contracts Specialist at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at The Ohio State University. There, she has been able to grow her budgetary and analytical skillset. When she is not working, she greatly enjoys language learning, with Hindi being her most recent endeavor, behind French. Moira looks forward to learning more about the development sector in India and doing her part to leave a positive impact throughout her Fellowship term.