Womenforwater

Dawn has been a member of the Women for Water Partnership board since 2022. She started her 2^nd mandate in 2025.

 Dawn has led Waterlution’s programs in Brazil since 2017. She is responsible for partnerships, business mentoring, and networking for Waterlution’s programs in Brazil and innovation across Waterlution’s global work.  An advocate for the advancement of female leadership in the water sector, she is committed to creating opportunities for women and girls to realise their ideas for collaborative innovation. Under Dawn’s leadership, 80 per cent of all seed funding allocated to projects in the five years of WIL Brasil’s existence has been used to support the advancement of women-led water solutions. Dawn developed a new approach to innovation testing as part of the Canadian government’s FIT-funded project ‘Empowering Adolescent Girls through Water Capacity Building and Innovation in Northern Mozambique’ and is leading a project in Pernambuco, Brazil, supported by the same fund entitled ‘Innovative Community-Led WASH capacity building: strengthening women’s voices in water governance in Brazil’. She has worked with Waterlution since 2010, in Canada, Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, the United States, and Tanzania, and was instrumental in the creation and launch of the Water and Sanitation Accelerator Programme “Waterlution BRK Acelera”.

Dawn brings 25 years of experience as a facilitator, project manager, performer, director and designer of learning experiences to her work with Waterlution. She is a mother of two and lives in São Paulo.