Jackie Greene co-founded Local Works Global and serves as its intellectual architect. She leads organizational strategy, theory of change development, and global network engagement, and guides our training, facilitation, and consulting services. As Team Lead for Network Engagement, she helps cultivate a globally connected community of practitioners advancing locally led development in diverse contexts. Jackie ensures our work remains grounded in learning, systems thinking, and locally led practice.

With more than three decades of experience in international development, Jackie brings deep expertise in locally led program design, organizational development, and systems strengthening across Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Russia. During her time with USAID, she played a key role in advancing locally led development through both practice and policy: supporting Missions in high-threat and conflict settings, co-authoring the Agency’s Local Capacity Strengthening Policy, and designing tools and trainings on co-creation, stakeholder engagement, and adaptive programming.

Jackie holds a Certificate in Organization Development from Georgetown University, an M.A. in International Affairs from American University, and a B.S. in Japanese Language from Georgetown University, the latter which reflects her lifelong commitment to language learning. She can hold conversations in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Japanese, and dabbles in even more. When she’s not working on strategy or facilitating a convening, she can usually be found deep in a K-drama alongside her cat Fiesta in their home in Arlington, VA.