Resla Wesonga is a project lead for the healthy governance project with The Omidyar Group. She recently graduated from Yale University with an MA in Global Affairs where she focused her studies on resilient governance and Africa – Asia-Pacific relations.

Previously, Resla worked as outreach coordinator for Princeton in Africa where she managed all the West Africa-based fellows, revamped and diversified the organization’s communication strategy, and organized fundraising campaigns that gathered over $250,000. She has also held internships at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Bangkok, Thailand where she helped include rights- and gender-based approaches in disaster risk management policies across Asia; the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington D.C., where she conducted an impact assessment of the Zimbabwe grants program; Fidelity Bank in Accra, Ghana, where she worked to expand the bank’s financial inclusion programs; and Keepod in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she helped diversify Keepod’s partners in the Kenyan educational market.

Resla holds a BA in Political Science and African Studies from Yale University.