Wendy is a development practitioner with over 20 years of experience working in international development in the philanthropic, iNGO and research spaces working with entities such as the Gates Foundation, the World Bank, Boma Project, CARE, Legado, FSD Kenya, MicroSave, and Busara. Since 2014 she has been involved in the poverty graduation space as donor and implementer.   Her broader work has also included a focus on resilience research, adaptive social protection program design, digital financial services design and usage, women’s economic empowerment, and agricultural financial services. She is passionate about designing and implementing strategies that have a focus on multi-sectoral interventions that emphasize collaborative partnership.  She holds a B.A. from the University of Washington, an M.A. in Education from Antioch University, and a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from the University of Washington. She is based with her family in Nairobi.