Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kofi primarily works on developing and supporting asset-based approaches to community-driven livelihood and quality-of-life technology design. He has co-facilitated village-level trainings in Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania and Haiti, worked with the Peace Corps to create appropriate technology centers in Zambia, and provided support to local innovation centers in Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Nepal, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Kofi is also part of a team developing a Multicrop Thresher in Tanzania, part of D-Lab’s management team, and has been known to mention that he is from the Bronx, NY. He studied political economy at Columbia University and international development at MIT.