Maryce is a skilled program designer and international development expert with more than 25 years’ experience, and technical expertise in gender, gender-based violence (GBV), youth, reproductive health, and capacity building. She has served as a gender advisor on multiple USAID global projects in sectors ranging from family planning to HIV to GBV. She has led efforts to prevent and respond to all types of GBV affecting differing populations in differing settings – school, workplace and healthcare facilities.

Maryce was Project Director of the ground-breaking Safe Schools Program and co-authored the Go Girls! curricula - programs and life skills curricula for pre- and adolescent girls and boys, with an emphasis on the prevention of school-related gender-based violence. She works at all levels of program development, and is adept at gender analysis, designing institutional gender strategies and delivering gender training programs for diverse audiences.