Jessica Posner
Jessica Posner
Overview
Jessica is the Co Founder of Shining Hope for Communities a non profit that combats extreme poverty and gender inequality in KiberaAfrica s largest slum. Shining Hope runs the Kibera School for Girlsthe slum s first free school for girls as well as a community health clinic clean toilet initiative youth and community education and economic development initiatives. Jessica is a nationally recognized social entrepreneur and activist. She won the 2010 Do Something Award and was named America s top world changer 25 and under live on VH1. Shining Hope for Communities has been featured by Nick Kristof in The New York Times CNN and on NBC Nightly News. Jessica graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with honors from Wesleyan University. She is twenty five years old and fluent in Swahili. She is currently based in Nairobi Kenya.
