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Meet the Team

Marcia Almeida Mendes

Marcia Almeida Mendes

Director of Storytelling

Marcia handles Decodis media and communications projects as well as research design and execution. Her talents are a unique mixture of communications, qualitative research and linguistics.

Michelle Carrasco

Michelle Carrasco

Communications Analyst

Michelle is Communications Analyst at Decodis. With her expertise in corporate communications, she manages our company's social media presence and supports storytelling efforts.

Derry Moore

Derry Moore

Lead Linguist

Derry Moore is Senior Linguist at Decodis and uses his unique capabilities in understanding the cross between social engagement and language as a foundation to our methods.

Nicki Smith

Nicki Smith

Director of Finance and Administration

Nicki sees to the financial, compliance and operation needs of our company. A natural problem-solver, she keeps the team moving by implementing productivity tools, overseeing vendor contracts and keeping our finances in check.

Bamzi Banchiri

Bamzi Banchiri

Project Manager

Bamzi uses her extensive non-profit sector and communications experience to manage projects across the African continent, having done work in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and the United States.

Dhaval Kothari

Dhaval Kothari

Senior Project Manager

Dhaval leads the team's efforts in conceptualizing and executing its projects in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa leveraging his experience as a practitioner/researcher across different sectors.

Pravarakya Reddy Battula

Pravarakya Reddy Battula

Director of Data Analytics

A Natural Language Processing (NLP) specialist who started his career as a Software Engineer and later pivoted to analytics and data science with focus on NLP.

Maria Pia Torres

Maria Pia Torres

Project Manager

Maria Pia is a Project Manager at Decodis and uses her unique cross-sector experience to lead our research projects in Latin America.

Adrija Battacharya

Adrija Battacharya

Data Analyst

Adrija is a Data Analyst at Decodis and she supports the data team and the project management team by managing and overseeing our survey executions.

Leona Mathias

Leona Mathias

Data Analyst

Leona is a Data Analyst at Decodis and, being an excellent problem-solver, she is fundamental at helping the team manage, analyze and visualize data.

Dhanashri Sawant

Dhanashri Sawant

Data Analyst

Dhanashri is a Data Analyst at Decodis and highly capable of working on our complex databases of multiform projects.

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