As Chief Operating Officer, Kevin oversees the day-to-day operations of RFA's human resources, finance, technology, and security teams. A member of RFA's leadership team, he leads efforts to develop and bolster the organization's overall efficiency as it expands its journalistic operations and capacity, in addition to enhancing the organization's technology capabilities and operational footprint.
Before joining RFA in September 2023, Kevin has more than 25 years of public, private, and NGO sector experience in the United States and abroad, focusing on issues ranging from education, and public health to agriculture, food security and economic development. He was the Chief of Operations for the Africa region at the Peace Corps, a position he held since 2019. Throughout his tenure with the Peace Corps, which began in 2015, he served in a number of managerial positions, including Acting Regional Director for the Africa region, and the Country Director of Peace Corps Liberia and Peace Corps Namibia. Prior to the Peace Corps, Kevin served as the Interim Executive Managing Director for Last Mile Health, during which he oversaw the organization's rapid scale-up during the Ebola epidemic in Liberia. Before that he served as Chief of Staff and Strategy at the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship and SVP, Global Field Operations for Operation HOPE, Inc., nonprofits focused on providing entrepreneurship, and financial literacy opportunities for youth and adults in the United States, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He also worked as Country Relations Manager for Teach For All/Teach South Africa, Senior Project Manager for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Peace Corps Agriculture Volunteer in Lesotho, Teach For America Corps member in Los Angeles, California, and as Operations Manager at Keller Environmental Inc., in Columbus, Ohio. Kevin earned his bachelor's degree from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and his master's degree in Management and Public Policy from the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. In his spare time, he loves to play tennis and keep up with his three nieces and nephew.