Erica Dybenko

Background

Erica Dybenko serves as program manager of the Africa Initiative at CIGI. She is charged with overseeing the Africa Initiative’s three main components: the Africa Portal, the research program and the exchange program.

Prior to joining CIGI in 2006, she worked with Athletes for Africa and their flagship GuluWalk campaign and assisted with a World Health Organization-led program in Vanuatu to increase accessibility to medical care in the country. She currently sits on the executive committee for the Masai Centre’s Bracelet of Hope Campaign to fight HIV/AIDS in Lesotho.

Erica holds her M.A. in political science from the University of Western Ontario and an Honours B.A. completed concurrently with a Certificate in Ethics at the University of Western Ontario and Queen’s University.