Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Katrina Aitken-Laird is the Founder and CEO of reFrontier Foundation, an impact investment vehicle re-imagining how businesses and investments can catalyze lasting and redemptive impact across whole nations. reFrontier addresses the most critical economic, spiritual, social, and environmental challenges of our time and develops and releases transformed leaders to deliver sustainable change across their communities and nations. She is a seasoned senior executive and program director with over 20 years’ experience designing and delivering large scale innovative and impactful development programs across multiple fragile and conflict-affected contexts. Her work has included local and international civil society organizations, private consultancy firms, the UN, UK and Danish government departments.
As the shock-wave from the shut down of most US Aid initiatives continues to impact real lives, the global Church has been given an opportunity to reinvent approaches to well-being that don't replicate bloated bureauracies or irresponsible charity. True justice must begin with lament and proceed with mutuality. Here's how we can move forward in a post-aid era.
