Michelle Geis Wallace

Michelle is director of the Nairobi Office, where she manages a growing portfolio of Africa-focused work and develops strategies to help bring awareness to some of the continent’s most pressing issues. Since joining Burness in 2009, she has focused on issues ranging from immunization and reproductive health to agriculture and climate change to urban and rural development.

Though based in Africa, Michelle also leads communications campaigns for organizations based in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the United States, and Europe. Michelle has organized and staffed press events in Washington, D.C.; Paris, France; New York; Nairobi, Kenya; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Kigali, Rwanda; Accra, Ghana; Lusaka, Zambia; Lombok, Indonesia; and Cancún, Mexico. She has trained dozens of community leaders, advocates, and experts on media and messaging at international organizations in Mexico City, Cali, Washington, Addis Ababa, Accra, Nairobi, and Johannesburg.