Kennedy Kattah, BS, Africa Continent Director, is an entrepreneur who has worked across various sectors including journalism, farming, trade imports and exports, and real estate, in his native country of Ghana, and Liberia located in West Africa. He is originally from Keta, Ghana, which is situated in the Volta Region, near Accra, Ghana. Kennedy belongs to the Ewe tribe. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Cuttington University College in Luacoco, Liberia and worked in Liberia, West Africa, where he served as an embedded journalist with the resistance fighters during the coup-de-tete and war. He has one son named Ken who is a college student in Liberia.

Mr. Kattah works with country directors and stakeholders on the African continent to bring opportunities to improve maternal and child health through our programs and services in The Motherland.

As a father, he is committed to empowering men to be present for their wives during the maternity care experience and strives to provide more support for young men to become engaged and supportive fathers to their children and their mothers.