DV Workshop: Genelle King Heim
Workshop details:
Date: November 7, 2006
Workshop speaker:
Genelle King Heim is President and Founder of Unity Partners, Inc. a policy and communications consulting firm. Ms. Heim has worked with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Vision, Save the Children, Procter and Gamble, Credit Suisse, BBC World Trust, UNICEF and the United Nations Development Program. Prior to founding Unity Partners, Heim worked for Cisco Systems for 6 years. While at Cisco she served as head of marketing for Netaid.org, a unique partnership with the United Nations Development Program, commissioned primary economic research with Thought Leaders at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Wharton Business School, Brookings Institution and the University of California at Berkeley, and represented Cisco’s interests at various UN engagements.
Heim is an accredited public-private partnership broker with the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum/Overseas Development Institute. She holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University ’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, an advanced degree in Japanese language from Progre Osaka, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She serves on the boards of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County and the Moldova Foundation.