Meet Our Team - With Women Kisoboka

WWK Leadership Team

NGO Staff

Edwin Ampeire

Executive Director

Edwin Ampeire

At WWK, we are deeply committed to advancing women’s empowerment as a solution to poverty eradication. Having witnessed firsthand the remarkable resilience and determination of single mothers striving to provide for their families, I have also seen many denied opportunities due to systemic barriers. Driven by a passion for gender parity, I believe empowering women is not only morally imperative but essential for sustainable economic growth and social progress. Together with the powerful team at WWK, I am dedicated to creating a more equitable world where every woman has the opportunity to thrive in today’s world.

Aminah Nakayiza

Program Director

Aminah Nakayiza

Aminah is a certified tailor by profession, and lives among the women of our local partner in the Busega settlement of Kampala District. Since 2016, she has served alongside Milly Naluwago as Assistant Country Coordinator of the Kisoboka Nano Initiative and is today WWK’s Program Director. A single mom of 5 children, Aminah not only runs a sewing business through which she trains others in clothing design and tailoring, she is also operates a mushroom farm on her homestead, as a model from which others in her community can learn the business.

Richard Madrama

NGO Bookkeeper

Richard Madrama

Richard holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Uganda Christian University with a specialty in accounting, a certificate in computerized accounting software, and is currently pursuing certification as a Public Accountants Uganda. He has served in the voluntary position of accounts Assistant in Finance department of Moyo District Health Office, and as an accountant at the Center for Economic Empowerment Uganda, and at Youth Advocacy and Development Network-ug. Richard in interested in serving and empowering people in different communities and is grateful for the opportunity to serve WWK.

Milly Nalukwago

WWK TRAINING CONSULTANT

Milly Nalukwago

Milly holds a diploma in education and worked for eight years teaching preschool in Kampala District. Since 2016, she served as Country Coordinator for the Uganda program of the nonprofit Our Biswas, and in 2019 accepted the role as Executive Director of the NGO With Women Kisoboka. Knowing what it means to be a single mother, Milly appreciates the opportunity to work with poor, marginalized women of the local community partners, providing support, advice, and encouragement.

Local Partner Leadership

Mutesi Shaminah

Program Lead / Abakyala Kisoboka Women’s Group

Mutesi Shaminah

Shaminah is a graduate of a program in information technology. More recently, she is working as the Program Lead of the Abakyala Kisoboka Women’s Group (AKWG), WWK’s most current local partner located in the Kayunga Village in Jinja District. She is a 32-year-old mother of one and also operates a small restaurant in her village to meet the needs of her family. Shaminah was orphaned at a young age and raised by her aunt who struggled to feed, clothe and educate those in her care. She is well aware of the challenges of being raised in poverty and is grateful to WWK opportunities provided to her and her community.

Natujuna Ruth

Program Lead / Bujagala Kisoboka Women’s Group

Natujuna Ruth

Ruth is lives at the remote rural Bujagala village and is the mother of four children. Only reaching primary level one in her education, she joined the Bujagala Kisoboka Women’s Group (BKWG), With Women Kisoboka’s (WWK) local partner in Kiboga District in March 2020 as the WWK Program Lead. Ruth, a natural leader, enjoys seeing the women she serves happy, touring different places, and cooking. She is grateful to participate in WWK’s adult literacy learning program and to be moving forward in her digital literacy as well!

Nakafeero Florence

Program Lead / ACCESS

Nakafeero Florence

Florence received a certificate in nursing and has worked for health facilities for many years prior to joining With Women Kisoboka’s local partner in Nakaseke as a Village Health Worker (VHT). Realizing the benefits she received as a WWK member, she took a position with the Program Team and was quickly promoted to Program Lead. Florence began as a bee farmer on a small scale. With the support of WWK, she has trained many other women in this highly successful business and herself has grown as a recognized honey producer.

Nakangu Mary

PROGRAM LEAD / KISOBOKA NANO INITIATIVE

Nakangu Mary

Mary worked as a professional primary school teacher in Kampala for 15 years prior to joining With Women Kisoboka as a member of the program team for WWK’s local partner in the urban settlement of Busega: Kisoboka Nano Initiative. She quickly grew to serve as Program Lead beginning in 2021. Also as a single mother of four children living in the south of Wakiso District, Mary shares, “I now see success in my life and understand that I can realize my dream of educating my children and building a safe and comfortable home.”

Board of Directors

Our Team in Uganda

Susan Nalugo

SECRETARY

Susan Nalugo

Susan’s bio will be coming soon!

TBD

TREASURER

TBD

Bio coming soon

Katali Estherloy

CHAIR

Katali Estherloy

Estherloy is on the faculty of the Business School at Makerere University, where she obtained her Masters in Computer Technology. She previously served as Managing Director of our local partner ACCESS and worked with Yale University Medical Partnership at Mulago Hospital, Kampala. Estherloy is advocate for women’s empowerment in Uganda and is pleased to be on the Board.

Nakato Jamidah

Jamidah Nakato is a lecturer in the Department of Marketing and Management at Makerere University, where she been faculty since 2011. She received a PhD in Business Management from Nelson Mandela University in South Africa in 2019. Her thesis is focused on Employee Talent Management in the Uganda Health Sector: A Public Institutions Perspective. A decade prior, Jamidah received her MBA from Makerere University. Jamidah is honored to join the board of WWK and to work for the betterment of Uganda’s marginalized women.

Petwa Kamusingize Rwomushoro

Petwa’s bio will be coming soon!

Our Team in U.S

Eliza Epstein

Eliza is a Program Manager in People Operations at Google, Inc. Her passion lies in solving global human capital challenges, and she is eager to share organizational people-centric insights, and process improvement strategies that benefit this community.

Ronda Zawel

Ronda Zawel is a professional social worker with over twenty years of experience in a wide range of human service issues and program operations. Providing technical assistance and training in a multitude of New York City (NYC) neighborhoods, Roni has helped volunteers operate emergency food and shelter programs and women develop home-based child care businesses with an enriched educational component. She is currently at the NYC Department of Health working with health care providers to improve children’s vaccination coverage. She is inspired by the women in Uganda and looks forward to helping them and their families realize their long-term goals.

Rebecca N Ssemambo

Rebecca is a native of Uganda, who migrated to the US and is raising her family and working in Massachusetts. An accountant by profession, she has a strong conviction to serve her community, in gratitude to how it has nurtured her to be who she is today. Previously she was involved with Twegaite, a US organization founded by children of Busoga and their friends of the Diaspora to help improve the socio-economic conditions in this region of eastern Uganda. Rebecca is inspired by Kisoboka Uganda, as she believes that empowering women especially those with low resources will have a positive impact on their families and the communities in which they live.

Marge Houy

Margaret (Marge) Houy is a retired health care consultant who brings organizational and analytical skills to the Board. Her volunteer activities include working with prisoners on meditation, co-running a community meditation program and serving on Boards of non-profits that focus on adult learning and education. Marge is particularly interested in programs that empower women and supports local NGOs when she and her husband are traveling internationally.

Michael Epstein

Clerk

Michael Epstein

Michael is General Counsel for Bain Capital Real Estate. Prior to joining Bain Capital in 2018, his work experience included Harvard Management Company’s (HMC) Real Estate Investment Group, Fidelity Investments, and Head of the Real Estate Law Department of John Hancock Financial Services Company, focusing on its national and international real estate and corporate activities. Michael was also was an associate at Palmer & Dodge in Boston specializing in real estate law. For decades Michael chaired the Planning Board of his local community. In the spring of 2019, he visited the women of Kisoboka Uganda, and is pleased he can be of support to this significant effort to make positive change in the world.

Amelia Koch

Treasurer

Amelia Koch

Amelia Koch is a retired financial professional with a 35-year career in non-profit accounting and finance. After receiving her CPA, Amelia built a career working for colleges and universities including Wellesley College, the Rhode Island School of Design and the Berklee College of Music. Most recently she was the controller for the University of Massachusetts Building Authority. Having volunteered in India for four months working with an entrepreneurial woman, as well as with her family supporting Ugandan artists, Amelia is very excited to have this new direct connection to Uganda and to continue supporting female entrepreneurs.

April Stone

Founder and President

April Stone

Former Uganda Lead for Our Biswas, and Founder and Board Chair for the Clover Foundation, April has worked with marginalized women and families in Uganda since 2013. A communications and external affairs professional, April is focused on human rights, equality, and social justice, locally and globally.