Angela is a Senior Learning and Development Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation. She has been with the company for over 11 years in Learning and Development and is an avid learner, who is passionate about sharing the opportunity for education and personal growth with others.

As an active volunteer, Angela has advocated on behalf of the disabled community – a cause that holds a special place in her heart due to her experience with her son, who was born with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome. She has volunteered on the Parent Advisory Committee for the Deaf/Blind Project at the Washington State Sensory Disability Services, in the Life Skills Program at a local high school, and worked special projects for Specially Designed Education Services.  She has also worked to promote domestic violence education for women in her community, volunteering at the Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County as a Volunteer Legal Advocate. Additionally, Angela has been a Global Give Back Circle mentor for over 5 years, assisting with the monthly mentoring tips newsletters and helping recruit dozens of mentors for the program. Most recently, she started working in Kenya’s Mathare slum, where Angela is raising funds and coordinating the implementation of a computer lab and the procurement of supplies for a school in need.

Wanjira has over twenty-one years of experience in the ICT sector with exposure to the utilization of Information Technology in managing businesses efficiently and profitably. She is passionate about the utilization of technology to change and impact lives and has over five years of experience in the management and execution of end to end Corporate Social Responsibility programs at Microsoft. Wanjira is a graduate of the University of Nairobi in Kenya.

Rose Musau is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Preferred Personnel Africa, a leading Human Resource firm in Nairobi, Kenya. She’s a seasoned headhunter with over 17 years of experience in the industry, an Executive Coach and a passionate enthusiast for inspiring and empowering people to greater heights. Through her organization she has also been involved in Corporate Social Responsibility activities and have contributed towards various projects, such as supporting children displaced as a result of post election violence.

Ms. Musau also formed Preferred Guza Foundation, an initiative with an objective to enable under privileged children to gain access to financial support for their high school and university education. Rose is an avid golfer and sits on several boards.

Dr. Helen Gichohi serves as the Managing Director for the Equity Group Foundation, bringing extensive strategic leadership experience from the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), where she served as Director of the African Heartlands Program and Vice President for Program before being appointed President.

Dr. Gichohi was named a Catto Fellow by the Aspen Institute, is the recipient of many awards, including: the Charlotte Wyman Trust’s Women in Conservation Program, the Order of Great Warrior and the Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear awarded by the Kenyan President and recently the 2012 Giai Environmental Award for the WIFTs Foundation International Visionary Awards. She has been serving as a member of Equity Bank Board of Directors for several years, and until recently, served as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Kenya Wildlife Service. Dr. Gichohi holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Leicester, an MSc in Biology of Conservation and a BSc in Zoology from the University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University respectively.

Mary is a Clinton Scholar, who studied Business Finance at the American University in Dubai, a prestigious scholarship, which was awarded to her during the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting.

There, Mary represented the Global Give Back Circle in the Opening Plenary Session with a choral poem on ‘Giving Back.’

As the former President of the Student Body at AUD — the first African women to ever hold this position – she is proof-positive that investing in girls pays off.

She was an invited speaker at the Women2Women Conference in Boston and was one of 100 young leaders (out of 6,000 applicants) selected to receive a full scholarship to attend the Women Deliver Conference in Kuala Lumpur. Mary was appointed as an Ambassador for Women Deliver’s World Contraception Day Ambassador’s Project and completed a Master’s degree in Business Administration on a full scholarship at the AUD in 2016.

Today, Mary is speaking all over the world on girls’ education issues. Most recently, she was in Copenhagen for the 2016 Women Deliver conference focused on the health, rights and well-being of girls and women, and in Lebanon conducting focus groups and interviews with girls at refugee camps across the country.

Erin strives to live a give back life. A 2010 accounting graduate of the University of Washington, Erin’s numerous volunteer activities and summer internships landed her the position of Staffing Consultant on the University Recruiting Team at Microsoft, where she transversed the country recruiting future Microsoft employees, running workshops and conducting on-campus interviews at numerous universities. Erin also served as the Program Manager for the Microsoft High School Internship Program and started a university webinar series. She has now moved into an industry staffing role with the Microsoft Advertising team where she serves as an internal consultant, recruiter, and college hire and development lead for her client groups. Her passion for improving young people’s lives is reflected in her leadership in recruiting Microsoft employees as mentors to girls in the Global Give Back Circle. Constantly meeting new people and pushing the limits in her ability to expand her impact within Microsoft and her global community, Erin brings youthful energy and personal and professional knowledge of what girls need to succeed from the West Coast of the U.S. to East Africa.

Fatma has more than 15 years of management experience and five years of Management Consultancy in Training and Development, Executive Coaching and Organizational Psychology.

She has worked with international companies such as UPS, Standard Charted Bank, Safaricom Ltd, Rwanda Revenue Authority, British American Insurance, AIG Insurance, CABI Africa and UNHCR, among others, and brings practical industry experience across a variety of fields, including: business strategy, organizational transformation, leadership development, culture change, group visioning, change management and corporate training.

Fatma is an expert transformative trainer with extensive skills in Transformative Learning, Executive Coaching, Organizational Psychology and Team Dynamics. Her deep Transformative Training and Executive Coaching experience is complemented by a firm theoretical grounding achieved as part of her training with Oxford College, London Chamber of Commerce, Academy of Executive Coaches, Deep Democracy Institute and Landmark Education.

Hope is the Chief Executive Office of ZEP-RE, a Regional Reinsurance Company headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with offices across Africa. Hope is passionate about girls education as a sure way to empowerment and supports vulnerable girls in Kenya and Rwanda. She is a Global Give Back Circle mentor and a supporter of Gashora Girls in Rwanda. She herself grew up in Uganda as a refugee. Hope is a Lawyer and holds an MBA from IMD International, Switzerland. Her career in Insurance/Reinsurance Management spans over two decades.

As one of the longest-serving beneficiaries in the program, and former Program Manager, Wilkista brought her knowledge to the implementation of the Global Give Back Circle – Future Leaders Program – in Kenya and Rwanda in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Women in Public Service Project.

As a longstanding Ambassador to the program, Wilkista has also represented the ‘Circle’ at several international conferences, including the International Women2Women conference in Boston, Massachusetts, which brought together girls from around the globe in an initiative to foster harmony and peace in the world, and the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, where she delivered a special statement on the solidarity of women and girls displaced by conflict.

Wilkista is also the co-founder and coordinator for the Kakenya Centre for Excellence (KCE) Mentorship Program.

A Meteorology graduate from the University of Nairobi, she aspires to specialize in rural energy access as a critical enabler for sustainable development in Africa. She previously worked with African Solar Designs Ltd – a renewable energy advisory firm with projects in Eastern and Southern Africa.

In 2017, she headed off to New Zealand to continue with her passion for energy. She will pursue her Master’s in Energy on a full scholarship at the University of Auckland.

Marjorie has been a champion of girls’ and women’s leadership for the last decade. As COO of Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW), an association that develops women leaders, Margie created events, programs and resources attracting nearly 2,000 young professional women to the organization. From CEW Margie went on to lead Marketing for the Girl Scouts USA. In addition to managing Greylock Associates, an LLC focused on corporate partnerships, Margie oversees all mentoring activities in the Circle. She is a graduate of Williams College and Kellogg School of Management.

In 2006, Edna was among the first ten beneficiaries and pioneers of the Global Give Back Circle.

Today, she is a graduate of Kenyatta University, where she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Community Resource Management & Extension. Her passion for women’s education saw her register a Give Back Commitment for Reproductive Health and run it for two years during her time at university.

After graduation, Edna worked with the ‘Circle’ as the Partnership and Relationships Coordinator for Private Sector in Kenya. She also worked as a consultant in the design and implementation of the Mentorship program for the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) Regional Leadership Center – East Africa from where she also graduated as a participant of Cohort 5.

She was instrumental in the organization of the first Educate ‘HER’ Parade in Kenya, which brought together 2,000 participants and raised scholarships for 127 rescue girls to go to university. Previously, she worked with FHI 360 – Gold Star Network, USAID Aphiaplus Rift Valley and Unilever. She started her Master’s Degree in Cooperation and Development at the University of Pavia, Italy in October 2016.

Ashley Chapman has been a proud mentor and fundraiser for Global Give Back Circle for over four years. Her background includes more than 15 years of experience leading global communications campaigns in the public and private sectors, and serving as a speechwriter for leaders in government, business and NGOs. She is particularly passionate about women’s empowerment issues globally, whether it’s through creating communications and development strategies for Women’s Refugee Commission, writing speeches about economic empowerment issues for former Avon CEO Andrea Jung, or climbing Mt Kilimanjaro to raise money to help women in the Democratic Republic of Congo receive critical medical care. Most recently she oversaw employee engagement, volunteering and corporate social responsibility programs at Ralph Lauren. She has written for publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Christian Science Monitor, and has a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in French and English literature from Colgate University.

Lidemta is a Programming Specialist overseeing the implementation of the Global Give Back Circle – Future Leaders Program – in Kenya and Rwanda in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Women in Public Service Project. In 2006, she was selected as one of the first ten beneficiaries of the Global Give Back Circle program. Lidemta went on to serve in several leadership roles, and was later elected as the first President of the program’s Governing Council. Her previous work experience as an agronomist at Amiran Kenya Ltd, and as an intern at Danziger Ltd (Israel), the African Wildlife Foundation and the Kenya Community Development Foundation helped her further her leadership skills. Lidemta holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Land Resource Planning and Management from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), and a post-graduate diploma certificate from AgroStudies (Israel). She is passionate about poverty eradication, women, and youth empowerment.

Rosemary is a graduate of Karatina University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Statistics with Computing. Today, she oversees the implementation of the Global Give Back Circle – Girls of Vision program in West Pokot, Kenya, where over 300 girls have been rescued from forced early marriage and FGM. There, Rosemary enjoys working closely with St. Elizabeth Girls’ Secondary School, the Circle’s implementation partner, World Vision Kenya, and working with the girls and witnessing their transformation. Her passion to give back to the society, to make an impact in the lives of young girls, and to ensure that no girl has to go through the same challenges she faced inspires her every day.

For nearly a decade, Rahul has worked to find innovative ways to educate some of the most vulnerable children in the world, both internationally and in the United States. Currently, he is the Director of Development at Change For Kids, a New York-based nonprofit that partners with underserved public elementary schools to help ensure that 4,000 young students have positive early experiences in education.  Formerly Founding Executive Director of Magic Bus USA, he led the strategy and execution in raising more than $5m in value for education and livelihood programs for 400,000 children and youth in India.  He completed the Indicorps Fellowship in 2009, an immersive service fellowship in grassroots development dedicated to holistic community development in rural and urban slum India.

Prior to moving into the social sector, Rahul worked as a chemical engineer, posted throughout the United States, China, Hong Kong, India, and Mexico. Rahul serves on the Advisory Board for the George Mason University Center for Sport Management and the Global Advisory Council of ThinkChange Consulting, a professional services firm providing advisory support to organizations working on social development initiatives.

Zainab a Programming Specialist for the Global Give Back Circle – India. She was previously a consultant with Global Give Back Circle – Kenya, where she oversaw the girls’ mentorship and workshop development. Zainab is also responsible for creating content for the Circle’s Mentoring Tips newsletters.

Zainab studied Biotechnology and was the Chief Editor of the Student Journalism Association at university. She has been a guest writer with the weekend magazine for The Star Newspaper. As one of the first beneficiaries of the Global Give Back Circle, and currently a benefactor, Zainab fulsomely recognizes how mentorship, higher education and acquiring life skills can transform the lives of girls for the better.

Asmahan graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology. During university, she interned as an Assistant Project Manager at Mindgem Concept, an IT company. She was also part of the environment-conservation team, ‘A Deeper Look into the Eco-System (ADE)’. After she graduated from the University of Nairobi, Asmahan was employed as a Program Assistant with the Global Give Back Circle in Kenya. She then worked as a consultant with Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) in East Africa; her duties were to design, plan, organize and manage the Mentorship and Advisory Program currently implemented by the initiative. At present, Asmahan is leading the Global Give Back Circle team in India as a Programming Specialist, where she is implementing the mentorship program in partnership with the Magic Bus India Foundation.

Adriana is a passionate volunteer, who brings several years of social work education and experience to the Global Give Back Circle. She has lived in Kenya for the past 10 years and is currently involved in a number of organizations, including Heshima Kenya, where she is a board member. In addition, Adriana has helped establish the KPMG Family for Literacy programme in East Africa, where she is in the process of helping roll out mobile libraries to serve disadvantaged children. She is an avid marathon runner.

Rupesh is a part of the Sustainability team at Magic Bus India. He manages international partnerships at Magic Bus and provides support to the organisation’s offices in the US, UK and Singapore. He is responsible for ensuring effective liaison and communication with international offices & partners, and manages their program implementation and reporting. Rupesh has nine years of experience in operations, research, project design & formulation, and has conceptualized and implemented projects across different sectors, such as water & sanitation, livelihoods, education, life skills, healthcare and disaster relief & rehabilitation. He holds a Master’s degree in Environment & International Development from University of East Anglia, UK.

Kusum brings over 17 years of development sector experience, starting her career working as a grassroots worker in one of the most backward blocks of India and has implemented programmes in Health, Education, Livelihood, Forest Rights, Food Security, Governance, Women and Tribal Development and Advocacy at National and International Forums. She has worked with UN Agencies, the Government of Odisha, and multilateral organizations on advising, designing and implementing programmes at different levels. At Magic Bus for the past six years, she has set up programmes in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and currently is assigned the task of developing and implementing a sustainable livelihood programme across India.

Catherine coordinates Governance activities of the Board of Directors and Organization Development function at the Secretariat. She is also the officer in charge of the Education scholarship and Girl Child programme at KCDF.

Catherine holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, a BA Degree in Business Studies from Kenyatta University and a higher Diploma in Human Resource. She has been with KCDF since its inception.

In 2006, Naom was among the first ten beneficiaries and pioneers of the Global Give Back Circle.

Today, her unique qualifications and advanced IT knowledge make her an excellent leader and team member.

Naom has held several leadership roles, both within the organization and in university, including Secretary General for the Environmental Health Students’ Association, Contributor and Editor for the Circle’s Mentoring Tips Newsletter, and Chief Editor for Moi University’s magazine. She served as a Deputy Principal at a mid-level college before joining the Global Give Back Circle team.

Since 2008, Naom has had personal commitments geared towards enhancing the health status of youth and those in low-income communities, and is the Founder of Kweza Health Initiative, a community-based organization that seeks to promote the health of people in her community, particularly those living in abject poverty.

Her commitment has educated hundreds of people on health issues and treated hundreds of jigger-infested persons. In 2013, Naom was awarded a scholarship to pursue a field practicum and intensive research program with Boston University for her efforts.

Naom holds a Bachelor’s degree from Moi University, School of Public Health.

25 years of entrepreneurial experience, on a global basis, in change management and business development, and a desire to give back to society, enables Linda to transfer commercially successful applications from the private sector to bring structure and sustainability to a critical social intervention; the empowerment of the world’s disadvantaged girls so that they can gain employment, live independent lives and give back too. Linda has a BS from Drexel University and an MBA from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University.

Lizzie launched her career directly in the NGO sphere at Ambassadors for Children and WaterAid America where she was responsible for executing campus chapter initiatives, public relations campaigns and managing donor relations.  Since 2011, Lizzie has served as the Assistant Program Manager, Program Manager, and, now, the Program Director for the Global Give Back Circle, leveraging her strategic and organizational aptitude in the development and institutionalization of processes and procedures that have enabled the program to expand from 35 girls to over 1,000. With a heart for empowering girls, she thrives in guiding implementation, managing complex projects virtually and in knowing she has a hand in helping equip girls with the IT, life skills, and education needed to break out of poverty forever.

Rita has been with KPMG for over 10 years, supporting the firm’s Advisory practice & Business Process Groups by implementing technical & process solutions for her stakeholders. She is a member of KPMG’s Involve council, planning & managing initiatives of community involvement with local & national non-profit organizations. Rita is a passionate supporter of the St. Bernard Project (SBP), an award-winning disaster recovery organization, and has collaborated with them on fostering skills-based & hands-on volunteering opportunities since 2008.

Born and raised in New York, she attended Maria Regina High School (MRHS) and Iona College. At MRHS, dedicated to the education of young women, students are taught in a setting that fosters intellectual potential and the integration of individuals within a global community. Appreciating how this environment benefitted herself & her fellow female alumni, it was a natural fit to become involved with the Global Give Back Circle. Rita is an active mentor and was an excited participant of the first ever Educate HER Parade.

Rose is Citibank’s Operations Head for Sub-Saharan Africa.

Rose joined Citi in 1985 and has since worked in various positions within the company. In 2007, she was appointed Senior Country Operations Officer, Kenya, and Head of Operations and Technology for the East Africa sub-cluster. In this role, Rose was responsible for comprising planning and execution of the Operations & Technology Strategy, as well as leading Product Operations and Infrastructure support. She managed a team of 140 staff across four countries.

Prior to Citi, Rose served as the Senior Country Operations Officer in Johannesburg, South Africa. Earlier in her career, she held positions such as SBOO-South Africa,‪ SCOO – Uganda & Senegal and other various roles in Product Operations.

Rose received a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree from the University of Nairobi in 1985.

John is a Philadelphia-based retired Ernst & Young Partner with over 38 years of leadership, people management, strategy and planning and client service. During his career, John served as the Leader for the Mid-Atlantic Advisory Services group, Mid-Atlantic Area Managing Partner of Assurance Advisory Business Services, Mid-Atlantic Area Leader of the Real Estate Group, Advisory People Leader for Ernst & Young’s East Central Region, in addition to serving in the National Office in a business development capacity.

For more than 20 years, John served as coordinating partner for numerous clients in a wide range of industries in both the private and public sector.

He started his career as an Intern with Ernst & Ernst in 1975 and was admitted to the Ernst & Young partnership in 1989. In June 2013, John retired. John is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Sports Congress and also on the Accounting Advisory Board for The Pennsylvania State University.

Christina Sass is Co-founder and COO of Andela. Prior to Andela, Christina built education and employment programs in China, Gaza and the West Bank, Kenya, and Nigeria. Christina also directed the Program department of the Clinton Global Initiative and advised the President and CEO of The Mastercard Foundation, a 9 Billion dollar global foundation working to advance youth learning and financial inclusion for youth in Africa.

Christina also serves on the Advisory Council of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and as education topic expert for the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting. Christina’s work has been mentioned by Forbes, CNN, The New Yorker, NBC, and WIRED. She was named as a 2014 New York Business Journal “Women of Influence”, a 2015 Business Insider “23 most innovative and inspiring women in New York City Tech” and a 2015 University of Georgia “40 Under 40” Alumni.

Christina has a BA in Ancient Philosophy from the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs) and a MA in International Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School from Tufts University.

Barbara is a retired insurance industry executive. She dedicates her time to full time charity work and brings sales, organizational and administrative skills to the Circle. Her duties include marketing, accounting and mentor recruitment. Barbara also oversees the management of the database.

Robert is the CEO and Founder of Resorts Online, an Internet-based company that specializes in the marketing of luxury resorts all over the world. Prior to launching Resorts Online in 1995, he was CEO of a NYC-based real estate business. His duties for the Global Give Back Circle include financial account management and fundraising. Robert is a graduate of New York University.

Elizabeth Cafferty works for UN Women, and is currently on secondment to the UN’s World Humanitarian Summit Secretariat (WHSS) acting as their Gender Advisor. Her work at the WHSS has led to the empowerment of women and girls becoming one of the priority issue areas for the Summit, which will be held in May 2016 in Istanbul. She was most recently senior advocacy officer at the Women’s Refugee Commission in New York directing the organization’s advocacy and policy work at the United Nations. Elizabeth previously worked at Massachusetts General Hospital managing an international research study on sex trafficking of women and girls and a portfolio of global reproductive health care initiatives. Prior to that, she spent eight years in London where, amongst other roles focused on international development and women’s rights issues, she served as founding director of Women for Women International’s U.K. office.

A native New Yorker, Elizabeth holds a Bachelor’s degree in political science from the College of the Holy Cross, and a Master’s of Social Science, Women Studies and International Development from the University of York, U.K. She is also a member of the Gender-Based Violence Advisory Board for the London-based Humanitarian Innovation Fund.

Margo is Vice President of U.S. Education for Microsoft Corp. She is responsible for the U.S. Education strategy and sales to K–12 and higher education customers across the U.S. Through partnerships, programs and technology, Microsoft plays a significant role in helping institutions and educators transform learning that makes a real impact on educational outcomes and helps students realize their full potential.

Margo has more than 31 years of experience in high-technology, and has held a number of exec roles at Microsoft over the past 14 years. She was a 2014 Circle of Excellence, Platinum Club Founders award winner, 2006 Microsoft Most Inspirational Woman award winner, and in 2012 was nominated for the Anita Borg Women of Vision Social Impact Award.

Making a difference in people’s lives is important to Margo. She has been deeply involved in funding the building of secondary schools for vulnerable girls in Kenya. She took a one-year leave of absence from Microsoft to focus her energies on raising funds and awareness for World Vision’s Kenya Child Protection and Education Project. This project is positively affecting 17,000 children in four areas across the Rift Valley.

Margo is the former national co-chair for the World Vision National Leadership Council for Child Protection, Board of Advisors President for the Renton/Skyway Boys & Girls Club and past founding board member of SeeYourImpact.org.