Humanitarian leader · Strategist · Facilitator · Writer
Anjana Dayal de Prewitt helps leaders, teams and mission-driven organizations turn global strategy into locally grounded action, drawing on more than 25 years of work across 30+ countries.
Experience and collaborations with
“Meaningful change begins with how we understand one another.”
Anjana Dayal de PrewittFounder, Dayal Prewitt Consulting · Washington, DC
About
Anjana Dayal de Prewitt is a humanitarian leader, strategist, facilitator and writer whose work has taken her across cultures, organizations and some of the world's most complex environments.
She began with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the American Red Cross, as a country manager for psychosocial support, a FEMA special representative and a federal liaison officer. She went on to lead psychosocial support and child protection at Save the Children, and community engagement and then DEI consultation at the American Red Cross, advising executive leadership across the organization.
In October 2025 she founded Dayal Prewitt Consulting to bring that experience to leaders and organizations navigating complexity.
Credentials & recognition
Formal training in peace, diplomacy and leadership, combined with recognition from the organizations she has served.
Also appointed to the U.S. Delegation to Sasakawa USA and the Women in Philanthropy steering committee.
Helped a global women's organization raise $60,000 in under a year; designed a global Women's Leadership Strengthening Series.
Applied Dr. King's philosophy of nonviolence to today's equity challenges, including a widely circulated article on violence in Manipur, India.
Senior advisor to executive leadership; led an environmental scan involving 100+ staff that shaped organization-wide strategy.
Trained 700+ people across 22 sessions; beat Latino Initiative engagement goals by 33%; co-developed curriculum with the ICRC and IFRC.
Led national strategy and multi-country programs; helped secure a $750K grant from the State of California.
Built a global gender and diversity strategy; ran workshops in Jamaica, Namibia, Haiti and the Philippines and conflict analysis in Ukraine.
Country Manager for Psychosocial Support, FEMA Special Representative (Caribbean Area Division) and Federal Liaison Officer.
Consulting
Anjana is a strategist, bridge-builder and catalyst who helps leaders connect organizational strategy with human experience. With more than two decades across humanitarian response, peacebuilding, organizational leadership, community engagement and cross-cultural work, she brings something many leadership teams lack: a direct line of sight between what an organization intends to do and how that work is actually experienced by the people it serves.
She works alongside executives and organizations to challenge assumptions, surface perspectives that may be missing from the room, build meaningful partnerships and turn insight into action.
Strategic counsel for leaders navigating complexity.
Connecting organizations with the people and perspectives that matter.
Strengthening the leaders, culture and systems that make organizations work.
Speaking, storytelling and experiential learning.
A distinct approach
Anjana's perspective is shaped by more than two decades of humanitarian response, peacebuilding, organizational leadership, community engagement, cross-cultural work and spiritual formation. She looks beyond strategy alone, to the people, relationships, histories, systems and lived experiences that shape how organizations function and how change is experienced.
Strategy with context, perspective and purpose.
Strategy becomes meaningful when people can see themselves in it.
Leadership is not only about what you know. It is about what people experience from you.
Meaningful engagement requires more than communication. It requires understanding.
People rarely change because they were given more information. They change when they see something differently.
The foundation
Anjana's perspective is shaped by a lifelong engagement with religion, spirituality, and the study and practice of faith, including her experience as a preacher, alongside extensive work in diversity, equity and inclusion, cross-cultural engagement and social justice.
These experiences are not the subject of her consulting work; they are part of the foundation from which she approaches it. They have shaped her understanding of human dignity, identity, power and belonging, and of the ways culture and lived experience influence how people see themselves, one another and the systems they work in.
That approach informs how she listens, builds connection across difference, navigates complexity, and helps leaders and organizations create environments where people can contribute, belong and do meaningful work.
Keynote · Panel · Workshop · Retreat
Speaking · Where experience meets impact
Anjana brings more than two decades of experience across humanitarian response, peacebuilding, organizational leadership, community engagement, psychosocial support and cross-cultural work to audiences seeking more than inspiration alone.
Her talks connect leadership with lived experience, strategy with human impact, and global perspective with practical action.
Compelling, thought-provoking talks that connect global experience with the challenges leaders and organizations face today.
Dynamic participation that brings depth, perspective and meaningful dialogue to conferences, panels and public conversations.
Interactive sessions designed to challenge assumptions, strengthen leadership practice and translate insight into action.
Thoughtful, engaging dialogue that brings together diverse perspectives and creates space for meaningful exchange.
Participatory experiences using storytelling, reflection, role-play and perspective-shifting exercises to help people see familiar challenges differently.
Retreat sessions for leadership teams on values-based leadership, self-care, inner peace, resilience and leadership well-being.
No two audiences are the same. Anjana works with organizers and leadership teams to shape the format, tone and content around the people in the room and what they need to take away.
She speaks on
Let's create something meaningful for your audience.
Invite Anjana to your eventWriting & perspectives
Writing, scholarship, commentary and reflections on leadership, peace, humanitarian work, culture and human connection.
Memoir
Gudia's journey from a railroad colony in India to the mountains of Puerto Rico, challenging tradition and expectation to forge her own path.
Poetry · Hindi
A collection of Hindi poems exploring family, memory and emotion.
Research & scholarship
Journal articles, book chapters and reports on psychosocial support, disaster recovery, gender and peacebuilding.
In Women, Religion and Peacebuilding: Illuminating the Unseen · United States Institute of Peace Press
Journal of Family Strengths
Read article ↗Disaster Recovery · Taylor & Francis
View chapter ↗Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA
Read report ↗The King Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Global Disaster Preparedness Center
Read article ↗Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counseling in Areas of Armed Conflict
Contact
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Based in the Washington, DC area · Working globally
