Carolyn brings over 15 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, program management, and policy advocacy, with a strong commitment to advancing sustainable change. Carolyn currently serves as the Research and Policy Fellow at the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation, where she supports the Foundation’s research, policy, and advocacy initiatives to promote gender equity across the state. Her career spans both local and global contexts, including roles in NH as Program Manager at the Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success (ORIS) and Executive Director of New American Africans, and policy work with the Kenya United Nations Mission in New York, where she contributed to the Post-2015 Development Agenda and the groundwork for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She is the founder of Mbaitu Inc., which mobilizes the Kenyan diaspora to support food security and education in Southeastern Kenya, and the Upendo Women Alliance, which promotes financial empowerment among Kenyan women in the U.S. Carolyn holds a Master’s degree in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University and is currently completing her Ph.D. in Global Leadership and Change at Pepperdine University. Her dissertation focuses on building resilient food systems in Southeastern Kenya.