Schooley has spent the last 35+ years in senior leadership positions within two global non-profit health and development organizations — Wellstart International 1985-2000 and Project Concern International (PCI) 2000-2022 — and is now an independent consultant. While her graduate degree focused on maternal and child health, Ms. Schooley has become a multi-sectoral specialist in non-profit leadership, with an emphasis on the design, management, and measurement of comprehensive, locally led programming across all regions. Before retiring in 2022, Ms. Schooley served as Senior Vice President for Programs at PCI (now Global Communities) overseeing technical, strategic and resource mobilization aspects of the organization.
Ms. Schooley has vast and varied experience in program design, proposal development and field implementation across a variety of global development technical areas such as health (maternal and child health, HIV, TB, NCDs, NTDs), nutrition, food security, education, livelihood security, WASH, gender, local capacity development, and humanitarian assistance. Ms. Schooley specializes in social change aspects of integrated health and development programming including social mobilization, social and behavior change, female empowerment and gender equity, innovation, local capacity strengthening, and other drivers of lasting positive change. In addition, she has significant experience in program/technical documentation and marketing; monitoring, evaluation, research and learning; strategy and policy development; and thought leadership, particularly related to community-driven, sustainable impact.
Since 2007 she has taught a graduate course on social and behavior change in global public health programming at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. Her teaching and facilitation style, even with large groups, is participatory and engaging, practical and motivating. Ms. Schooley served on the board of CORE Group for over 18 years (including as Secretary and as Chair of the Program Development Committee) and is currently on the boards of the Gem Family Foundation and Partners of the Americas. Ms. Schooley received her master’s in public health from San Diego State University and her undergraduate degree in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a native English speaker with professional working proficiency in Spanish.