Meet the Founders
Hadassah and Jessica have been working together for over a decade and across complex contexts around the world. Together they have built programs that open doors and create opportunities positively impacting thousands of people and their communities.
Through cross-sector conversations and thought leadership, Hadassah and Jessica explore how practitioners can build a resilient, inclusive, and prosperous future while leveraging emergent technologies.
Hadassah Galey
With over 18 years of experience across nonprofit and for-profit sectors, Hadassah is a strategist, systems thinker, and program architect who co-founded Three Pillars International with the belief that meaningful change emerges when we look beyond current challenges and intentionally create the people-centered programs, systems, and opportunities that make a better future possible.
Her expertise is in turning vision into reality. Hadassah specializes in the full arc of program development: scoping and prioritization, stakeholder alignment, resource allocation, and implementation that ensures programs are sustainable and impactful.
At the core of Hadassah’s work is a sharp analytical mindset paired with practical, on-the-ground experience. Hadassah is skilled at diagnosing root challenges, refining processes, and implementing solutions that improve both efficiency and outcomes. Clients value her ability to hold the big picture and the operational detail at the same time, and to keep teams aligned and moving through complexity.
Hadassah approaches every initiative with intentionality, designing holistic, people-centered programs that empower individuals and communities to thrive. Grounded in both strategy and the process of action and reflection through praxis, Hadassah believes in the transformative power of education. She is deeply committed to supporting individuals in achieving their full potential and fostering environments that enable stakeholders to thrive.
Jessica Buchanan
Jessica co-founded Three Pillars International on the core conviction that a person's ability to think critically is essential to educational success, personal and professional growth, and meaningful engagement with, and on behalf of, one's community.
Her work has spanned 18 years of designing and implementing programs that have built resilient institutions at the national level, developed university staff capacity and curriculum, trained teachers, established career and learning centers, facilitated scholarships, and strengthened leadership skills for undergraduate and graduate students as well as professionals at all levels.
She is adept at working in high stakes and unpredictable environments From post-conflict Iraq and Afghanistan to multi-government partnerships spanning the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia, Jessica has directed large-scale initiatives, navigating competing stakeholder priorities and cross-cultural complexity while bringing the highest levels of accountability. She has negotiated and managed multi-million-dollar budgets, established complex partner agreements, overseen technical platform design, and driven business development efforts across a portfolio spanning NGOs, higher education, and U.S. government partners.
Jessica is an analytical solver, partnership builder, and forward thinker. She understands not just the challenges but the source and nuances beneath them, and she is able to build a clear vision for moving forward. She brings the experience, the rigor, and the human insight to make investments count for the communities they serve.