Jessica Jackley Flannery is a co-founder of Kiva with her husband Matt, and the spirit behind the organization. Flannery first saw the power and beauty of microfinance while working in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development.
Previously, Flannery worked in the Stanford Center for Social Innovation to launch the inaugural Global Philanthropy Forum, and at Amazon.com, Potentia Media, the International Foundation and World Vision. Flannery has spoken widely on microfinance and social entrepreneurship, and has seen microfinance at work in a variety of communities in more than 30 countries.
Jessica Flannery holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Certificates in Global Management and Public Management, and a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from Bucknell University.
I think I've always been pretty darn good at dreaming and dreaming big dreams and this is what I want to do and some day you know, I mean maybe too good because sometimes I felt like I know what I want to do in 20 years but it's very unclear how to get there, the next steps are very unclear. I felt...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Jessica Flannery States Initial Rejection From Business School Led To Founding of Kiva
Jessica Flannery Discusses Involvement With Village Enterprise Fund And Initial Experience in Africa
Jessica Flannery Discusses Excitement Over the Social Experiment That Kiva Turned Out To Be
Jessica Flannery Discusses Challenge of Communicating a New Idea That Doesn't Fit Into a Box
Jessica Flannery Discusses Challenge In Combining Speed of Internet With Slow Pace of Relationship Building on Microfinance Side
Jessica Flannery Shares Anecdote of Bridges That Exist Between Developing and Developed World
Jessica Flannery States Entrepreneurship In The Developing World Is Different But Still Centers on Innovation
