Susan’s bio will be coming soon!

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.

Bio coming soon

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.

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.

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’s bio will be coming soon!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.