The Weeyacom Team
President/CEO of Weeyacom Ms. Ami Henson is an international development expert with more than 20 years of experience. A three-time USAID Chief of Party (COP), Ms. Henson excels at management of MEL services, including process, client satisfaction and capacity building. As both a field-based COP and Home Office Director with experience in USAID, she is intimately familiar with both technical and operational excellence. She has developed a reputation for exceptional CPARs and generating solutions in difficult and complex environments. She has managed over $300 million in MEL programs and nearly 300 MEL staff. During her time as Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director and Senior Director of all programs at the QED Group, she provided technical and managerial oversight to MEL support projects in her portfolio of 18 projects including USAID mission-wide MEL support projects in Uganda, West Bank, Egypt, Afghanistan and Iraq. Ms. Henson has also served in the field as a Chief of Party of monitoring and evaluation support platforms in four countries (Kenya, Pakistan, Sudan and South Sudan). Previously, she worked directly for USAID on the Sudan Task Force in Washington, DC and as OTI Country Representative for Sudan. She has an exemplary record of providing quality and progressive management and M&E services donor clients. Ms. Henson holds a JD from Georgetown University, and a BA in Political Science from Wheaton College.
Senior Director of Programs and Instructor Kasia Kedzia brings over 15 years of experience in performance management and capacity building in 18 developing countries to the Weeyacom team. Her experience also includes organizational management and oversight, assessment and capacity building of organizations and small enterprises, monitoring and evaluation. Ms. Kedzia is a passionate trainer and mentor who is knowledgeable in current U.S. development policies, USAID ADS 200 Series, UN systems and UKaid (DFID). She has also provided support services to federal and corporate clients in areas of human capital management, organizational change management and workforce planning. Ms. Kedzia holds a Master’s Degree in International Development and Social Change from Clark University, and speaks fluent Polish.
Senior MEL Consultant Katharine Wheatley Hoffman has 18 years of experience in international development, 16 of which focused on performance monitoring and evaluation. As a Senior M&E Expert, Ms. Hoffman has spent the last 12 years providing technical direction, assistance, training and oversight to project directors, Chiefs of Party, donor, consultant, local and expatriate project staff worldwide in a variety of sectors. While at the QED Group, Ms. Hoffman provided technical guidance and quality control support to M&E platform projects with USAID/Egypt and USAID/West Bank. At Social Impact, she conducted quality control of consultant deliverables and designed task order technical approaches under an M&E support contract with the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan. At MSI, she provided expert M&E technical assistance to USAID COPs in Haiti, Kenya, Pakistan, Senegal, and South Sudan. Ms. Hoffman has worked in 15 countries and speaks French, Spanish and German.
Senior Project Management Consultant Yasmeen Zamamiri is an experienced, PMP-certified Project Manager in federal contracting and international development. She has over seven years experience implementing M&E, health development and foreign aid contracts and grants globally for numerous agencies, including USAID, Department of State, Department of Labor, Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs. She has also worked on health systems strengthening initiatives and global refugee healthcare overseas for organizations including Caritas Lebanon and the U.N. Relief and Works Agency. Ms. Zamamiri holds a B.S.P.H. from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, in Health Policy and Management, and an M.S.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University in International Health Systems.
Senior MEL Consultant Katherine Vittum is a Senior Manager and Adviser for democracy, human rights and governance programming in complex settings. She has expertise in the design, implementation and evaluation of multi-stakeholder projects covering stabilization, citizen engagement, civil society capacity building, electoral and constitutional reform, devolution, decentralization, political party strengthening, legislative strengthening, conflict management and mitigation, and countering violent extremism. Ms. Vittum is trained in evaluation methods and analysis, design thinking, meta-analysis, facilitation, conflict mitigation, and multi-functional teaming. She holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs and is a dual US and Canadian citizen.
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Janet Long graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, focused in Accounting, from Texas A&M University in 1994. Immediately following graduation, she worked in public accounting for eight years, where she earned her CPA license designation in 1997. Ms. Long has maintained an active license for more than 20 years now. During that time, she worked on a variety of clients in a variety of industries, including service providers, construction, manufacturing and distribution, and banking.