2011 SEEP Annual Conference: Lisa Kuhn Fraioli on microenterprise development and microfinance as development tools

During the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference, Lisa Kuhn Fraioli of Freedom from Hunger explains how organizations are looking at microenterprise development and microfinance as tools to help clients, and women in particular, achieve their objectives.

Bio: Lisa Kuhn Fraioli

Fraioli has over 11 years experience in microfinance and 15 in Latin America. She joined Freedom from Hunger in 2005 as Technical Advisor in Microfinance, providing technical assistance and training to microfinance organizations throughout Latin America. Since then she has launched offices in Mexico, Peru and Ecuador and expanded partnerships in the region from eight to over fifty. Currently, Lisa supervises all programmatic activity in Latin America. She also serves on the steering committees of the Imp-Act Consortium and the Latin American Network for Gender Justice in Economic Development. Before joining Freedom from Hunger, Fraioli worked as a gender and microfinance specialist for Opportunity International, specializing in product design and research. She has also worked for FINCA International. She has an M.S. in Foreign Service (Georgetown University) and a B.A. in Romance Languages and Latin American Relations (DePauw University). She speaks Spanish and French.