Amy Passaro
USA, Remote
Research and evidence
Malnutrition

Amy Passaro

Sr. Program Coordinator, Nutrition Research & Innovation

Amy Passaro serves as the Senior Program Coordinator for Malnutrition GRIP, where she advises on strategy and drives uptake across IRC's nutrition portfolio to advance the Impact at Scale (I@S) agenda. She translates organizational priorities into action across the nutrition global practice area, helping teams navigate their strategic pathways and ensuring the portfolio's initiatives stay aligned and mutually reinforcing. Amy leads knowledge management across the 20+ contexts where IRC has nutrition programming, synthesizing learning to inform strategic decisions, and supports coalition strategy with partners including UNICEF and USAID. Before joining the IRC, Amy worked in UNRWA's Donor Relations Unit in Beirut, Lebanon, and as an Event Assistant for WITNESS, a Brooklyn-based non-profit using technology to expose human rights abuses. Amy holds a Master of Arts in Global Policy Studies from Rutgers University and is proficient in Levantine Arabic.