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Alonzo’s World of Risks and Rewards in Diplomatic and Humanitarian Work
Allan “Alonzo” Wind is a former Senior Foreign Service Officer from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) having worked on diplomatic assignments in Peru, Nicaragua, Angola, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan and South Africa. He provided oversight to U.S. government foreign aid development and humanitarian assistance, and supported U.S. Ambassadors as their senior development officer on multiple U.S. Embassy Country-Teams.
In South Africa, he helped establish the Southern Africa Regional Leadership Center as part of President Obama’s Young African Leadership Initiative, and contributed to other youth development efforts and business incubators.
Alonzo began his career as a Rural Public Health Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador. He then served as the Global Programme Coordinator for Save the Children, and as a Country Director and Health Sector Coordinator for numerous nonprofit, private voluntary organizations including CARE and PLAN International, in Ecuador, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and the United Kingdom.
He graduated from the University of Chicago, is originally a New Yorker, and as a high schooler attended the well-known Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. There he studied creative writing for two years with the famous Irish American writer, Frank…
