Tufts – Feinstein International Center

Kinsey is a doctoral student at The Fletcher School where her work focuses on gender; security studies; and women, peace, and security. She is a research assistant and social media manager at the Feinstein International Center, and teaching fellow for Feinstein and Fletcher faculty. Kinsey is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the New Lines Institute in the Gender Policy Program.

Kinsey completed her master’s at The Fletcher School, where her thesis explored the ways that children were impacted by security sector reform policies in Afghanistan. Prior to pursuing her degrees at Fletcher, Kinsey worked as the director of scheduling for a United States senator, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in northern Cambodia, and worked with refugee communities in the Atlanta area. Kinsey holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Georgia in community development and Arabic.

Kinsey resides in Washington DC where she is completing her dissertation work, looking at the different ways the United States Military is implementing the United States’ Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) to identify roadblocks and entry points for success.

Feinstein Publications

Sex, age (and more) still matter: Data collection, analysis, and use in humanitarian practice

By Dyan Mazurana, Anastasia Marshak, Kinsey Spears | March 2023

This report reviews progress, outlines barriers to further progress, and makes recommendations to advance gender equality in the humanitarian system.

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Making the Nexus Real: Moving from theory to practice

By Merry Fitzpatrick, Kinsey Spears, Julia Ryan, Gregory Gottlieb, Samuel Polzin, Daniel Maxwell | December 2021

This report explores the nexus (small n), as a way of programming, and the HDP Nexus approach (capital N), as the approach promoted by the UN and OECD/DAC.

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