Jacinta Mwende

Jacinta Mwende is a skilled project manager currently working at Marie Stopes International since October 2020, where responsibilities include ensuring effective project management, monitoring project quality and timelines, managing procurements, and supporting field teams. Concurrently, since July 2019, Jacinta serves as a project assistant at the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, coordinating community mobilization and supervising fieldwork for research projects. Previous experience includes an internship at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, focusing on tissue and cell culture, and a role as a laboratory assistant at the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, where Jacinta conducted analyses and data management tasks. Jacinta holds a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Kenyatta University, completed in 2017.