Ronda pierce

I am an IT Release Manager for IQVIA, a human data science and Clinical Research Organization, in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. I have a MSc in Information and Knowledge Strategy from Columbia University. My Sister Cities of Durham, North Carolina-Arusha, Tanzania Committee membership started in 2012. I attended my first Arusha Committee meeting and was asked to lead a Cyber Exchange between our local high school in Durham and a secondary school in Arusha. The Cyber Exchange project ran successfully between 2012 to 2016. I coordinated with the Durham Water Treatment and Water Soil departments to provide student programming and had our Arusha school connect with their water treatment plant at Mt Muri in Arusha. As a collaborator I wrote two Rotary grants. A District Grant in 2015 ($6800) and Global Grant in 2019 ($73k) for a two-phase water project in Arusha, Tanzania. I became a Rotarian and later President of the Rotary E-Club of District 7710, 2018-2019. In 2018 I was asked to assist the North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) in a State Partnership with Tanzania. The NCNG collaborating with our Arusha Committee to raise awareness in the Tanzanian diaspora community through our affiliation with the United Tanzanians of North Carolina Association and our relationships with non-profits who had programs in Tanzania. In 2020, I joined the Sister Cities International Africa Region Planning Committee and became a member of the Global Awareness Team as Country Representative, Tanzania and a member of the Virtual Programs Committee.