Kendall Trelegan
Class of 2025
Kendall Trelegan is a feminist professional most interested in the gender, climate, security nexus. For the past three years she has been volunteering, interning, and working for a variety of nonprofits, including the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, WECAN International, Our Generation of Inclusive Peace, and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. She was the Canada and US Regional Manager for ESD Global piloting gender based violence interventions training programs. She is now working for the Center for Justice & Accountability, a legal nonprofit that brings international human right abusers to justice. She graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern University with a Bachelor’s in Political Science and minors in International Relations and Global Social Enterprise. At Northeastern she studied in Dublin, Madrid, and throughout India and additionally completed two co-ops in corporate DEI and at a women’s political organization.
Why GHD?
I chose GHD because my passion has always been to alleviate risks that foment at the intersection of overlapping sources of vulnerability - whether that's gender, climate change, and conflict or otherwise - this program really gives me the flexibility and the depth to approach varying, complex world problems in a way that suits my specific interests.