Essey Workie
Collaborative on Global Children's Issues
Essey Workie is a certified executive coach, policy researcher, and a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children's Issues. She specializes in developing people, policies, and programs to improve the lives of children and forcibly displaced people.
- Facilitates strategic planning and design thinking among interdisciplinary actors, including government, philanthropy, research, advocacy, and service-delivery organizations.
- Led policy research at the intersection of human services and immigration policy and directed the human services initiative at the Migration Policy Institute.
- Represented the federal government as the official spokesperson for the Administration for Children and Families in the mid-Atlantic region.
- Founded and directs Multicultural Coaching, where she coached and trained over 1,000 government and nonprofit leaders, and is an Official Member of the Forbes Coaches Council.
- Featured by major media outlets including the Associated Press, Washington Post, Immigration Law360, and the Christian Broadcasting Network.
- Co-led research and technical assistance projects in Bangladesh, China, Kenya, Jordan, Mali, and Rwanda.
- Obtained a master’s degree in social work from Temple University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from James Madison University.