Catherine joined Maliasili in March 2023 as a Portfolio Manager for East Africa. She has been working in the climate change space for the past ten years, specifically focusing on empowering local communities around protected areas to use natural resources to make an income while ensuring that they are protecting said resources for future generations. Catherine has vast entrepreneurial and communications experience and is very passionate about helping as many people as possible realize the benefits that are associated with conservation. She brings with her years of working with indigenous communities in rural Tanzania and with urban communities and organizations in Tanzania and Kenya on climate change adaptation and mitigation.