Justin Ngoga
​Founder and Executive Director

 Justin is a Cultural Intelligence Certified professional with proven experience in instructional design, project management and team management. He graduated from the former National University of Rwanda (current University of Rwanda) with a bachelor’s degree of English in 2011.

Before starting Impact Route, Justin worked with Peace Corps in 2012 as a language and cross culture facilitator.  From 2013 to 2014, he worked as an academic program officer with a study abroad program in Rwanda.  From 2014 to 2016, Justin was the training lead with One Acre Fund while hosting Kivu Gap Year students in Kigali, Rwanda. He is very passionate about helping young people reach their full potential through mentoring, training and shared life experience. 

Advisory Board
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Michael Pucci, PHD
President at Transformational Initiatives

Over twenty years of multinational experience in Singapore and Rwanda in educational capacity building, international brand consulting, business, and development, crafting excellent programs and curriculum, transforming business models and organizational cultures, and taking education higher in both Africa and Asia.

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Kirsty Buxbom
Voluntary Recruitment Advisor at VSO

Kirsty Buxbom has held a number of international leadership posts covering Rwanda, UK, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Her career features extensive business and organizational development experience including 8 years as HR Director for Xerox and Electrocomponents.
During 2013 – 2015 Kirsty completed an 18 month posting as Project Management Advisor for the National Council of Persons with Disability, Rwanda through Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). Since then she has managed a series of assessment centres to recruit education graduates in Rwanda.
Kirsty continues to support a number of individuals and organizations in Rwanda on a remote basis including organisational development support to Impact Route Rwanda.

Caroline Numuhire
Program Associate at Segal Family Foundation

Caroline Numuhire is a Program Associate at Segal Family Foundation in Kigali. She works with SFF partners based in Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, and Francophone Africa as well as coordinating the Social Impact Incubator in Rwanda. 

She holds a degree in agriculture sciences with a major in rural development and agribusiness from the University of Rwanda and Master’s degree in Global Health Delivery at the University of Global Health Equity. Additionally, Caroline has worked for three years for Global Health Corps (GHC) as the Rwanda Programs Coordinator and before that, she served as the Agriculture Training Manager at Gardens for Health International.

Gerry van der Hulst
CEO at Three Mountains learning advisors

In 2015, Gerry van der Hulst (1961) moved to Rwanda to start Three Mountains learning advisors together with her husband, Jan Willem Eggink.  Three Mountains makes training materials, facilitates and builds e-courses for Rwanda and East Africa. The company employs young people to teach them to make quality training materials. Previously she founded a consulting company in the Netherlands called De Professionele Mens (Professional People). De Professionele Mens focuses on capacity building with the use of e-learning. Gerry lead several projects to develop extensive blended learning programmes for professionals and students in the chronic care sector.
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From 2011-2014 Gerry was an elected member of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug’s city council for Groen Links (Dutch political party, Green Left). She was country director of SNV in Botswana and Niger, working to alleviate poverty.
Gerry worked as a manager and consultant in several health care institutions in The Netherlands and Zimbabwe, after finishing her studies in occupational therapy and sociology. She is an experienced facilitator and a professional coach.

​Luke Parrott
Assistant Director, Graduate Admissions at University of Denver

Luke Parrott is an Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions at the Daniels College of Business. He is also an adjunct instructor for the INTZ 2501 Global Citizenship course for undergraduate study abroad students.
Prior to this role, he was the director of a gap year program provider where he oversaw admissions and program management in international experiential education for nine years. During this time, he managed operations in seven countries with a diverse leadership team. He co-designed a cross-cultural curriculum with a strong emphasis on developing emotional intelligence and cultural competence in the context of high impact practices. He is the chair of the Gap Year Association research committee in efforts to further academic research surrounding benefits of gap year experiential education.Luke is also an adjunct professor at the University of Denver where he teaches a global citizenship course to prepare students for their study abroad experience.

Eileen Woods
​Director at Capricorn Consulting

Senior consultant, organization change, capacity development, human resource management and gender mainstreaming specialist with significant Canadian and international experience focused on partnering with business leaders to build capability, develop diversity and gender mainstreaming programs, manage change, align talent acquisition, deployment and compensation with business needs, and develop management and organization development strategies, policies and systems that support the organization’s business goals. Experience includes work in utilities, government, international development banking, education and international development sectors in Canada, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. I am a certified ILO Participatory Gender Audit Facilitator and Co-founder of Career Women’s Network and of Professional Women’s Support Network (Kigali, Rwanda)