Resla Wesonga is a project and research lead with The Omidyar Group.

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 and an MA in Global Affairs from Yale University.