Aoife Ryle

Member

Aoife Ryle is a Development Manager who works with various direct social-service nonprofits to aid their grant stewardship, program design, and evaluation work. Her work spans elder justice, affordable housing, immigration, rural healthcare, kinship care, disability services, and support for individuals experiencing homelessness.

She has spent the past decade in the nonprofit sphere as both a consultant and program manager. Aoife has co-chaired an organizational DEIA committee and presented about equity at universities and conferences. A study about the impacts of programmatic work she co-led has been published in the Journal of Museum Education.

Aoife holds a BS in Bioengineering and is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Management from the University of Illinois Gies College of Business. Her experience as a first-generation immigrant to the United States helped shape her desire to create opportunity and space for marginalized individuals.

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