As Kiva’s Global Engagement Manager, Jessica builds partnerships and community to alleviate poverty and create opportunity worldwide. She’s passionate about connecting people and ideas, and helping others unleash their capacity to impact the world for the better. Prior, Jessica worked in rural Kenya on literacy programs. Her early fieldwork was in Africa and Asia, working with refugees through UNHCR, the International Rescue Committee, and MSF, focusing on women and girls, and increased access to education and finance.