Yvonne C. Lodico
Co-FOUNDER, Executive Director
Yvonne Lodico, as Co-Founder and Director of Grace Initiative Global, develops programs for a mission of peace-building, restorative and transformative justice, the nexus of trauma healing and peace, humanitarian strategies as well as nexus of governance and sustainable development. From 2022-2025, Ms. Lodico oversaw and implemented refugee resettlement program through the Office of Refugee Resettlement. In addition, Ms. Lodico served with the United Nations in various capacities including in the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, on UN peacekeeping missions in Sub-Sahara Africa and in Asia Pacific and as head of an office at the UN Headquarters. As a special advisor for the Secretary-General, she developed of a program under the banner of “Together Let’s Strengthen Democracy.” Ms. Lodico has published and given presentations on inter alia peace-building, humanitarian intervention, role of faith and pluralistic societies. Ms. Lodico received a scholarship from Yale Divinity School, and awards, including two for humanitarian service from European Academy of Economic and Cultural Relations. Ms. Lodico holds a JD., LL.M. (humanitarian law), MIA, and MAR.
