Jenny Barker

Advisory Board

With years of experience managing programs in education and public health in Tanzania, Jenny Barker brings key skills to the advisory board in international development, specifically finance and operations management related to projects targeting education for girls, HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention, and water programs throughout Africa.

Jenny has held multiple positions at FHI360, first as a program and finance associate for the Ambassador Girls Scholarship Program in Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and Tanzania. As a program officer for the Tanzania Marketing and Communications for AIDS (T-MARC) program, she managed and coordinated GIS/GPS monitoring and evaluation efforts to identify and map high-risk locations for HIV transmission and led field pilot visits as well as development of curriculum.

Jenny also worked with Procter & Gamble’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water Fund on a PUR clean water program in northern Tanzania. Currently, she serves as director of the Global FISH Alliance, a USAID-funded program working on sustainable fisheries with the communities who depend on them globally.

Jenny received her masters in public administration in international development management at George Washington University in 2006 and her bachelor of arts in communication studies from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1998.