SELECTED EXPERIENCE

Current

Principal & Founder, Herizon Democracy LLC

Democracy and Governance Consulting. Projects include:

• Council of Europe
• UN Women
• IFES (multiple)
• Banyan Global
• Réseau des compétences électorales francophones

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International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
Gender Advisor
Arlington, VA, September 2017 – October 2019

As the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) Gender Advisor, Bardall was responsible for providing strategic leadership and technical assistance to IFES’ work in empowering women’s political participation and promoting inclusive governance.

APSA Congressional Fellow
Washington D.C

• U.S. House of Representatives
  Legislative Fellow, office of Rep. Jan Schakowsky – violence against women in politics, domestic democracy and electoral processes, foreign affairs. Co-convened Congressional briefing on violence against women in politics with Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

• Congressional Research Service, Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division
  Developed responses to Congressional clients on sub-Saharan and north African issues, Analyzed CBJ FY8 Request, updated CRS reports and memos

UN Women – Haiti
Elections and Gender Expert, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

International Republican Institute
Delegate, Joint IRI-NDI Pre-Electoral Technical Assessment Mission, Accra, Ghana

The Carter Center – Burundi
Human Rights Expert, Bujumbura, Burundi

United National Development Program (UNDP) – Burundi
Election Violence Prevention Expert, Bujumbura, Burundi

International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) – Burundi
Election Violence Expert, Bujumbura, Burundi

UN Women – Burundi
Women’s Political Participation Consultant, Bujumbura, Burundi

UN Women – Kazakhstan
Women’s Political Participation Consultant, Almaty/Astana, Kazakhstan

Democracy Reporting International
Senior Short-Term International Expert – Gender and Elections, Tunis, Tunisia

The Carter Center (TCC), Egypt Election Observation Mission
Gender and Elections Expert, Cairo, Egypt

The Carter Center, Guinea Election Observation Mission

International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
Field Program Manager, Conakry, Guinea

International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
IFES Resident Project Manager/Interim Country Representative,
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
Program Officer — West and Central Africa, Washington, DC