Em(ily) R. O'Hara

Launched a social enterprise platform, ImpactFlow.com, with the founding team by leading the marcom strategy, including brand positioning, and driving business development objectives which secured a round of Series A funding.

Launched the largest online ethical fashion retailer, Modavanti.com, (acquired by DoneGood.co) with the founding team by leading the marcomm strategy, branding, and business development operations.

Managed a Gates Foundation grant-funded project to build the infrastructure (e.g., web content development, shipping logistics audit, and early-stage marketing conceptualization) for the launch of Bangladesh's premiere e-commerce website, Aarong.com. Conducted monitoring and evaluation as part of the grant reporting, including qualitative data collection.

This open access book gives insights into feminist methodologies in theory and practice. By foregrounding the experiential and embodied nature of doing feminist research, this book offers valuable tools for feminist research as a continuous praxis. Emerging from a rich collective learning process, the collection offers in-depth reflections on how feminists shape research questions, understand positionality, share research results beyond academe and produce feminist intersectional knowledges. This book reveals how the authors navigate theory and practice, candidly exploring the difficulty of producing knowledge on the edge of academia and activism. From different points of view, places and disciplinary positions, artistic and creative experiments and collaborations, the book provides a multi-layered analysis. This book will be a valuable resource and asset to early career researchers and interdisciplinary feminist students who can learn more about the doing of feminist researchfrom realistic, accessible, and practical methodological tools and knowledge.

With the recent passing of an abortion bill in the state of Ohio’s House of Representatives, and the imposition of the Global Gag Rule in 2017 which stopped funding for services providing abortion advice and care overseas, the US is undermining women’s rights both at home and abroad. Debates around abortion have been characterised by pro-life vs pro-choice arguments. Yet, these are fundamentally questions of rights, as countries such as Ireland and Canada have underlined in their approaches to a...

Produced web content development for VilCap.com, including blog posts and news articles in-house as a Communications Associate at Village Capital, a nonprofit venture capital firm that supports entrepreneurs through accelerator programs and resources across key thematic areas.