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.
Fast forward, I go through college, I study philosophy and poetry and never think about studying business because I wanted to help people. Why would I study business if I wanted to help people. That's what I thought and then a few years out of school, I basically... still trying to figure it out. ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Jessica Flannery Discusses Personal Background and Decision To Spend Career Focusing On Alleviation of Poverty
Jessica Flannery Discusses Impact of First Hand Experience With Entrepreneurs Receiving Microfinance in East Africa
Jessica Flannery Discusses Founding Of Kiva And That It Started Small But Had Opportunity To Scale
Jessica Flannery Discusses Challenge of Balancing Kiva With Business School and States Importance of Believing In Yourself
