Jerilyn Cochran has had a varied career and is currently serving as Capacity Building Manager at World Vision, a global Christian humanitarian organization. partnering with children, families, and their communities to reach their full potential. Jerilyn works on helping project staff throughout the world by providing high quality facilitator and grants training programs.
Jerilyn comes from California, USA, where before World Vision she worked for a city government, a charitable foundation, for a US domestic Christian NGO, the US Senate and for USAID. She served as a grant maker, grant donor and grant manager of government and private-funded community revitalization, affordable housing, childcare, emergency food, health and shelter programs.She currently attends Refuge Fellowship and has volunteered in English as a Second Language, domestic violence prevention and community arts programs.
As co-founder of the Christian Adoption Project, she traveled extensively throughout Russia since 1991 and adopted her then 13-year old (now 38-year old) son, Alexander, from St. Petersburg in 1995. She has a nearly 40 year-old daughter, Kelley, and is also the proud “Baba” to three grandsons.She holds an MPA in Public Policy from the University of Southern California and a BA in Political Science from the University of the Pacific. She also holds a Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) certification from Biola University and certifications in management of government grants issued from various federal agencies. Her love of words and of explaining has led her to lead bible studies and as teacher and author, to write published articles and try new technologies for communicating God’s word to others.
