Team Category: Leadership Team

Abdi Debela

Abdi Debela is based in Denver, Colorado, and joined the Village Enterprise team in January 2023 as the Chief Financial…

Talley Diggs

Talley Diggs is based in Washington, D.C. and joined Village Enterprise in 2023 as Director of Grants. Talley has over…

Evelyne Mkungo

Evelyne is a human resources professional with over 15 years experience and brings a wealth of experience from the private…

Melissa Tomlinson

Melissa Tomlinson has more than 15 years of fundraising experience with animal conservation and environmental organizations, including 14 years supporting…

Brett Slezak

Brett Slezak joined the Village Enterprise team in 2022. Throughout his career in marketing and communications, Brett has specialized in…

Leah Bwari Okero

Leah Okero joined Village Enterprise in 2020 as the Program Manager for our USAID-Nawiri Resilience Food Security Activity. Now as …

Sylvere Mwizerwa

Sylvere Mwizerwa, our first-ever Rwanda country manager, leads Village Enterprise to grow its impact to historic highs, helping our first-time…

John Ilima

John Ilima is the country director of Uganda and brings over 10 years of experience in education, social programming, organizational…