Alisha Robertson-Stephens

Founder & Executive Director

Originally from a small town in Texas, Alisha’s spent the last 10 years volunteering and working across seven countries and four continents – in Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, India, South Sudan, Uganda, and Indonesia. Her natural curiosity, coupled with her deep belief in global citizenship, propelled her to travel to and work with under-resourced communities in different parts of the world, listening and learning from each experience abroad.

Alisha has over 15+ years of combined professional experience in the for-profit and non-profit sector, including numerous years working with multiple organizations where she played a key role in the human relations and training and development departments. She’s worked with both small and large multicultural and multilingual teams in many different areas including education, community development, gender equality, community health, and micro-finance.

As the Founding Director of The Kikulu Foundation, Alisha leads the strategic direction and operations for programs both in the United States and Uganda.  

Beyond working to ensure all children have access to quality education, she enjoys traveling, spending quality time with good people, and being near the water. She currently splits her time between Texas, the Pacific Northwest, and Uganda.