Jesse Eaves
Senior Director of Peacebuilding, Humanity United

Sessions: Local Funding (Day 1, Morning)

Jesse Eaves is a Senior Director at Humanity United, a private US philanthropy focused on cultivating the conditions that can transform human exploitation and violent conflict into enduring peace and freedom.  With a background in child protection and systems change, Jesse has worked extensively in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe on issues ranging from human trafficking and child exploitation to youth-led conflict transformation.  He currently manages part of HU’s peacebuilding strategy to support and accompany networks of local peacebuilders from around the world as they reimagine a system where the international response to violent conflict is defined by those living closest to that conflict and honors their vision for sustainable peace.

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