Please welcome our newest Sparkies! Line Nya Ngatchou joins as our Finance & Operations Manager. Before joining Spark Northwest, she served as Operations Director at Amplio, a Seattle-based nonprofit that provides simple, cost-effective, technology-based solutions to empower low-literacy communities with access to knowledge. She holds an MBA in Financial Management from Iona College, NY and a Master’s degree in Sustainable Development with a concentration in Agricultural Economics from Montpellier, France. Fluent in French, Italian, and English, Line brings a global perspective to her work.
Johanna Rohde joins our program team as a Project Manager. Johanna has built a diverse career, managing projects across multiple industries, while always grounding her work in the desire to connect people and communities to needed resources. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Zambia, working with farmers on environmental projects. While in Zambia she also worked with a group of women to launch a basket-weaving craft-cooperative. Now based in Spokane, Johanna is excited to join the Spark Northwest team and eager to leverage her unique skillset to work with local communities building sustainable, clean energy projects.