Building Our Team

We welcomed our new Strategic Partnerships Manager, Shamira Lukomwa, a social impact professional with over eight years of experience in the sector. Shamira joins us with experience from both the “doer” side working with nonprofits in East Africa and the funder side as a grantmaker. In her role, Shamira manages our fundraising, donor engagement, and external partnerships.

Shamira recently spoke about how African visionaries are creating innovative solutions to development challenges on the continent at the 2022 MedaWeek Barcelona 2022 New Africa Business Forum.

Wawira Njiru is the founder and executive director of Food for Education, a women-led social enterprise that is leveraging community, parent, and government partnerships at scale to expand national school feeding programs and create a sustainable path to solve the nutrition crisis for over 200 million African children. To date, Food for Education’s feeding programs has provided over 10,000,000 meals to African children. In 2022, Wawira received the United Nations Kenya Icon Award.

Jailan Adly, a global development and social impact executive and strategist, forges mutually beneficial partnerships between the private, public, and social sectors to build the capacity of impact-driven initiatives, individuals, and organizations. She is currently the Managing Director at GoodCitizen, an executive search firm that focuses on helping social sector organizations find extraordinary leaders