Rose Maruru

Rose Maruru is the co-founder and CEO of EPIC-Africa, a Senegal based nonprofit start-up that is filling critical data and capacity gaps in the philanthropy marketplace in Africa. Rose’s has more than 25 years’ experience in international development working in Africa, the Middle East and the US. Rose has a master’s degree in development management and planning from L’Institut Africain de Développement Economique et de Planification (IDEP) in Dakar, a post-graduate diploma in American Studies from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and a BA (Honors) in government and literature from the University of Nairobi in Kenya.