Toluwalase Ojeshina, an International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) Fellow, is a Program Manager of Rule of Law and Empowerment Initiative: Partners West Africa Nigeria with expertise in gender mainstreaming, Women, Peace and Security, fundraising, and proposal development.
She has served as a Research Logistics Assistant for the Program on Security Institutions and Violent Instability (PSIVI) implemented by the University of California, Berkeley focused on how countries around the world respond to violent threats such as insurgency and terrorism. She also served as a Logistics Coordinator for the USAID West Africa Reacting to Early Warning and Response Data in West Africa (REWARD) Project evaluation team coordinated by the Peace through Evaluation, Learning, and Adapting (PELA) activity based in Accra.
She obtained a Bachelor of Science, Earth Science from the University of Ghana, Legon. She has facilitated training for security institutions on United Nations Security Resolution 1325 and provided technical support towards the development of gender policies.