Rashmi Ekka serves as a Project Director for Connexus, supporting the USAID Generating Equity and USAID Land for Prosperity projects in Colombia. She is an international development practitioner with 14 years of experience working to increase access to finance and developing agriculture market systems. Her technical expertise is in agricultural market systems development, food loss and waste, financial inclusion and entrepreneurship development. Most recently, She developed a Food Loss and Waste Value Chain Selection Guide for USDA and led it’s pilot in Kenya and Costa Rica. Previously, Rashmi managed USAID Feed the Future Horticulture Innovation Lab’s projects to reduce postharvest losses in horticulture in Rwanda and Burkina Faso (2016 – 2019). Rashmi holds an MBA from the University of California, Davis and a BA in Economics from the College of Wooster, Ohio. She has worked in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, India, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Rwanda, Uganda, USA and Tanzania, and she has lead projects remotely in Cameroon, Colombia, Costa Rica, Zambia and Zimbabwe.