Biography
Becky Richeson is a Systems and Complexity Project Manager at The Omidyar Group. She works across Omidyar Group organizations to support initiative teams who are adopting a systems practice. She also supports the development of materials and programs designed to increase the systems capacity of teams.
Prior to joining the The Omidyar Group, Becky earned a Master of Sustainable Peacebuilding from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she was a John M. Kohler scholar. During graduate school she completed fieldwork at a community social-enterprise in Costa Rica and worked as a Water Conflict and Cooperation research assistant. Prior to attending graduate school, Becky’s work focused on the community level. She developed a three-agency collaborative program that worked with survivors of domestic violence to support them in obtaining and sustaining living-wage jobs. She also developed programming at a homeless shelter to support the development of a social-enterprise, which provided job training as well as a sustainable revenue stream for the shelter. Becky earned a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she graduated magna cum laude.