Currently the Regional Director, Southern Africa with JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc., Patience has been an integral member of the Bantwana Initiative nearly since its founding. She was instrumental in leading and transitioning the Initiative into a regional network. She served as a longtime Country Director for Bantwana in Zimbabwe and Chief of Party for the USAID/ PEPFAR supported Vana Bantwana program. In that role, Patience led the development and scale up of the National Case Management System, which has been rolled out to all 65 districts in Zimbabwe and is being replicated in other African countries. She also led the start-up and implementation of the highly successful Ana Patsogolo program in Malawi, as well as the Children First program in Zimbabwe. Patience holds an MA in Policy Studies from the Southern Africa Regional Institute for Policy Studies and has a genuine commitment to locally led development and solutions.