Nargiza Ludgate research focuses on food security and gender equality and utilizes mixed methodologies to explain complex issues that surround women’s empowerment, social capital and collective action, role of community-based organizations on women’s leadership potential in patriarchal societies, gender-based violence and intersectionality. She serves as the Co-PI of the IDRC-funded project Advancing Women’s Participation in the Livestock Vaccine Value Chains in Nepal, Senegal and Uganda. She also co-leads the Human and Institutional Capacity Development (HICD) Crosscutting Theme for the USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems. Ludgate holds a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary ecology from the University of Florida and a MBA from the New Mexico State University.