Leading with Ethics: Professional Practices for Sustainable Development

Nazeli Tonoyan is an academic and practitioner in sustainable international development. She is currently advancing her expertise as a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, focusing on global inclusion and social development. Tonoyan's research is transdisciplinary, underpinned by her commitment to driving social and legal change. Utilizing feminist theory and methodology, she conducts studies on marginalized groups, aiming to challenge and reshape existing power structures. Her areas of research and interest include sexual and gender-based violence, gender and human rights, gender equity, LGBTIQ rights, education leadership policy, access to education for Indigenous girls, and interdisciplinary curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation internationally. She has a profound passion for developing and implementing innovative teaching methodologies, particularly in graduate-level education. She also offers scholarly project advisement, such as thesis writing and capstone projects, assisting students in developing meaningful educational goals consistent with their interests, values, and abilities. As a multilingual expert, Tonoyan advises policy and practice internationally. She is an expert in quantitative and qualitative research methods, which brings a unique, mixed-methods perspective to her work. Her graduate teaching portfolio includes human rights law, gender-based violence, ethics of development, gender and development, and the economics of education.