Meet the Team

Carolyn McMahon has been working to solve financial inclusion problems for over a decade. Her work at FemFinance centers the experiences of people, especially women, as the key to unlocking smart solutions to systemic problems. Carolyn’s consulting practice leverages human-centered design and qualitative data analysis to inform strategic decision-making and measure social impact. She has experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder programs in the fields of financial health, fintech, payments, and policy.

Previously, Carolyn served as Program Officer for the Fletcher Leadership Program for Financial Inclusion and as Innovation Strategist for Commonwealth, where she led the organization’s work on mobile financial technology for underserved Americans. Carolyn worked with ACCION East, managing the MicrotestImpact study for 2010 and served as a French translator for Kiva.org’s microlending platform. Carolyn holds a Master’s degree in Development Economics and Conflict Resolution from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a B.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

PRINCIPAL

Carolyn McMahon

Lucia Tawfik has extensive experience applying quantitative and qualitative research methods. Lucia was an Economist and Project Manager for nearly a decade with AECOM's Asset and Advisory practice and is adept at managing complex, multidisciplinary projects. Lucia’s wide range of experience includes working with nonprofit and for-profit organizations, regional planning agencies, city planning departments, and institutional investors.

Lucia received a Bachelor of Arts in both Political Science and Communications from the University of California, San Diego and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from University of California, Los Angeles.

SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Lucia Tawfik

Emma Creighton's professional focus is helping organizations transform their data into accessible and useful information for guiding decisions. She works in Excel, PowerBI, Google Sheets, Looker Studio, R, and ArcGIS to sift through rows and columns to reveal a snapshot of the big picture. Data contains tremendous power, but only if it is organized, concise, and comprehensible. Emma makes that happen, working with teams from a range of cultures, educational experiences, and visions for the future.

Emma earned her undergraduate in Middle Eastern Studies from Tufts University and her masters in Gender Analysis and Analysis, Design, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for International Organizations from the Fletcher School. She spent a decade as a professional racing sailor prior to moving to the NGO sector. She has sailed across the Atlantic Ocean alone, taught SCUBA diving, lived and worked in more than a dozen countries, and grows her own tomatoes. When she is not working or gardening she is often on her bike, at the gym, in the water, or wandering in the woods looking for creatures.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE