Marcienne Umubyeyi

Marcienne Umubyeyi is a Rwandan consultant with 18 years of experience in Social Economic Development. Marcienne has extensive experience in project management, community work, and advisory services to private sector, development partners and policymakers. Most recently, she has served as country program manager for several projects using the diaries methodology in West- and East-Africa. Additionally, she has been responsible for various researches, program evaluations, fact findings and baseline studies, which delivered reports to help product development, program design and policy decisions in the socio-economic sector. In her role as coordinator of the Livelihood Diaries in Ghana and Uganda, she employed diaries research, which involves tracking and documenting detailed aspects of people’s lives that exhibit fluctuations. This approach enables L-IFT to design development interventions based on action research. Marcienne has 14 years experience in financial inclusion and entrepreneurship, youth training, project formulation and implementation.

Jessica Massie

Jessica is a digital financial literacy specialist with the United Nations Capital Development Fund. Previously, she was a senior technical advisor for Reach Global in Kigali, Rwanda. She is an education specialist with over 15 years of experience in financial literacy, nonformal education and programming for adolescent girls in Guinea, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Malawi. In her previous role at Microfinance Opportunities, she trained over 200 trainers, and wrote and adapted education for clients of commercial banks, microfinance institutions and village savings and loan (VS&L) groups across Africa. Jessica has also held positions at the Microcredit Summit Campaign, Mesilla Valley Habitat for Humanity, and the National University of Rwanda. Originally from Michigan, she is fluent in French and holds a graduate degree from The Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

Maurice Masozera Sayinzoga

Maurice has worked with Partners in Health, IntraHealth International, EDC, and the Baylor College of Medicine before graduating from Georgetown University with a MA in Global Health and Development. He served as Senior Manager for Policy and Research at the Digital Impact Alliance at the United Nations Foundation from 2017-2022 and is now the Program Director for Democracy and Technology at the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Washington, DC. Maurice will assist with our predeparture training.