Jainey K. Bavishi
Jainey has been involved in recovery and rebuilding efforts in the Gulf Coast since January, 2006. Prior to coming to LDRF, Jainey provided research support to the Gulf Coast Funders for Equity on a project to create a funding collaborative to support effective and trusted community-based groups that lack nonprofit status. She also served as the Field Research Co-Coordinator and Funding Liaison for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. In this role, she identified community organizers working in New Orleans, co-authored three online reports surveying their external resource needs, and facilitated potential partnerships between funders and organizers.
Jainey has also spent considerable time working abroad. She created advocacy materials for a campaign to start daycare centers in communities below the poverty line in Cuttack in Orissa, India, an area that had been struck by a super cyclone in 1999. She has also worked in Cape Town, South Africa and Havana, Cuba.
Jainey is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy Studies and Cultural Anthropology from Duke University and her Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.