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Community Development

We are a team of design thinkers, instructional designers, and trainers that believe that our communities must have the skills to grow and lead in their local contexts if we are to be the platform for the world's knowledge.





The team

Simona Ramkisson

Director of Community Development

Asaf Bartov

Lead Program Officer

Melissa Guadalupe Huertas

Senior Learning and Capacity Strategist

Cassie Casares

Learning & Development Specialist

Beverly Jiang

Senior Learning & Development Strategist

Jessica Stephenson

Lead Program Officer, Let’s Connect

Sailesh Patnaik

Senior Program Officer, Community Development

Anamaría Espinoza

Instructional Designer

Bridgit Kurgat

Lead Program Officer, Gender

How we work

We facilitate community growth through learning and development which means designing tools, experiences and programs that help communities grow in size, enhance the resilience of volunteers and support community governance and leadership.

Selected projects

Current projects