Team

Program Manager

EMILY DEVRIES

Graduating top of her class, Emily DeVries has a post-grad certificate in Children’s Media: Writing, Production, and Management from Centennial College in Toronto, Canada.  Prior to this, Emily received a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Religious Studies from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. In this program, she dedicated most of her psychology degree to courses in Child Development.  Since completing her studies, Emily worked with the kidsmediacentre based out of Centennial College for 3 years, including on several research projects involving media for children and assessment of its effects. This involved both qualitative and quantitative study design, implementation, assessment, and report writing.

Additionally, Emily DeVries has played a role in past short-term projects, research projects, and television productions for various companies and organizations including programs for CBC, YTV, Disney XD, TVO, and others.

Operations Manager (Uganda)

Head IT/Technology Operations

PATRICK SSONKO

Is a Strategic, multidisciplinary Computer Engineer, Web/Graphics designer and artist with a God-given eye for innovations and perfection. He has previously worked for different organizations in the IT/Technology sector like Film Garage, March For Christ, and Center For Social Research & Arthouse.  Having a colossal skill set, his greatest expertise revolve in the worlds of interactive children’s content design, social media, brand identity design, content creation and print collateral. He combines his knowledge and experience in these areas so as to deliver the best creativity for young audiences.