Leonie Rauls was the development and external relations coordinator at the Inter-American Dialogue from 2018-2019. She graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College with a BA in Political Science and Spanish, focusing on development policy. Her senior thesis analyzed the unintended consequences of Conditional Cash Transfers, a poverty alleviation program in Latin America, on civil society engagement and the rights of the poor. Prior to becoming the development coordinator, she interned at the Dialogue’s Rule of Law Program. She has also interned at Grassroots International, an organization that supports global social movements, and at Endeavor Global, an international development organization that fosters entrepreneurship. She is fluent in Spanish, English, and German and has worked and studied in Costa Rica and Spain.
