FOUNDER AND CEO
Caroline Njeri Ng’ang’a is an award-winning Kenyan social entrepreneur, experienced board director, Chartered Mediator, and Founder and CEO of Crafts With Meaning. She is passionate about building sustainable businesses that create economic opportunities through artisan skills, manufacturing, market access, and circular production.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Statistics from the University of Nairobi, is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K), and holds an MBA from United States International University–Africa (USIU-Africa).
Caroline is a Miller Center for Global impact Alumni, a Vital Voices Fellow, and an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow. She was also named among Business Daily’s Top 40 Under 40 Women in Kenya in 2018.
Beyond her professional work, Caroline is an avid traveller and golfer, bringing the same curiosity, discipline, and passion for new experiences into her leadership and entrepreneurial journey.
BOARD DIRECTOR
Peter is a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya a qualification he earned at Strathmore University in 1998.
Thereafter he worked as a Tax/ Management consultant in a leading audit firm for four years.
He has over fifteen years’ experience in senior level management in large commercial enterprises where he has assisted businesses develop and implement appropriate strategies to achieve Financial, Tax and Operational efficiency.
He is highly knowledgeable in finance structuring and fundraising.
BOARD DIRECTOR
Hope Maina is a branding enthuse whose passion is to see brands thrive. She is the founder of Brand Mania Limited, a Kenyan branding agency formed a decade ago and whose focus was and still is to help create, develop, maintain and improve brands.
Hope has a post graduate in Human Resources Management from the University of Nairobi, a bachelor’s degree International Relations graduate from United States International University (USIU), a diploma in Information Technology from Jomo Kenyatta university of Agriculture and Technology and currently pursing a diploma course in Interior Design from the Interior Design Institute.
She has previously served as an assistant training coordinator at the African Institute for Capacity Develop under the JICA flagship and personal assistant to the DVC- Academic Affairs at USIU.
Hope thinks in colour and loves adventure! She enjoys arranging things in new ways and finds beauty in everyday situations and appreciates decorative art and handmade crafts.
BOARD DIRECTOR
Michael has 7 years of experience working in monitoring, evaluation and research assignments, both quantitative and qualitative, in collaboration with International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), Amsterdam Institute for International Development, University of Amsterdam, and University of Sydney among other institutions.
The research projects include: the ITC-funded PRESM project that used RCT to evaluate the impact of contract farming in Kenya’s avocado sector and the 3ie-funded project to evaluate interventions to build competitiveness of the banana sector in Kenya.
He is a PhD candidate at the School of Economics, University of Nairobi and a published author with a bias towards Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Environmental Economics and Economics of Climate Change.
His other academic achievements include master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Economics from the University of Nairobi; professional certification in monitoring and impact evaluation from Laval University, Canada; training in statistical packages and impact evaluation from the University of Nairobi and the University of Sydney.
He is currently the resident economist at the Public Private partnership department at the national treasury in Kenya.
BOARD DIRECTOR
Ann has international experience working in Philanthropy to advance Human rights, good governance and rule of law.
She has dedicated her career to defending the rights of those discriminated against.
She has experience in program design and strategy development, program management, strategic planning and visioning, advocacy, lobbying, capacity building, media engagement, networking and alliance building.