Jillian Montilla

Development and Communications Associate

Jill Montilla (she/her) is the Development and Communications Associate of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative. In this role, she helps advance the organization's outreach and fundraising initiatives, amplifying the efforts of both the Global Partner Network for Feminist Foreign Policy and the Coalition for Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States.

Before joining the Collaborative, she worked at Fòs Feminista as a Policy Research Intern, supporting the global alliance’s evidence-based advocacy on sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice. She provided policy analysis and research support for Fòs Feminista’s reports and accountability tools on topics such as the Global Gag Rule, climate change and the care economy. She was previously a Research Fellow with the Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and a Principal Investigator and Project Manager with the Gender Studies Department of Sciences Po for an action-research project aimed at enhancing the political participation of young migrant women.

Jill’s experience at the international and regional levels is enhanced by her time as a grassroots anti-racist organizer in France and as NGO CSW/NY’s 2020 Youth Spoken Word Poet. She holds an M.A. in human rights, an Advanced Certification in Gender Studies from Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs and a Certification in Gender-Sensitive Approaches to Transitional Justice from Ulster University’s Transitional Justice Institute.

Follow Jill on X (formerly Twitter) @jillmontilla.