Sharon leads African Services’ resource development activities, including donor prospecting, proposal writing and special event planning. A graduate of the Wagner School at NYU, she was an Oprah Winfrey Scholar and earned an MPA with a specialization in non-profit management and policy. Prior to that, she worked for the Ford Foundation in Kenya as a program assistant in the Human Rights and Social Justice Program, where she provided programmatic support in managing a $1.2 million annual grant portfolio including reviewing grant requests, preparing grant recommendations, and liaising with and monitoring the portfolio’s 44 grantees. Born and raised in Kenya, Sharon has a BA in economics and sociology from the University of Nairobi and has a particular interest in economic development initiatives. She has worked on World Bank and various UN agency projects in Sierra Leone, Kenya and the US. She speaks Kiswahili and French, in addition to English.