Meet the Team
Let’s Make THE Difference is run by the people closest to the need. Refugee and grassroots leaders design and lead the programs inside the communities they serve. Behind them, a small team across the U.S. handles strategy, communications, and operations.
Wendy Huffman
Wendy Huffman leads Let’s Make THE Difference from Nashville.
Before LMTD, her work ran through business, design, leadership, and communication as a trained life-coach. Decades of building things, and a share of loss along the way, taught her how deeply people long for meaning and connection.
Today, she oversees the organization’s daily operations, leading a team of refugee-turned-executives across Africa. Having empowered refugees to become leaders themselves through platforms like Landmark Worldwide, she now mentors Difference Makers launching impactful legacy projects and remains grounded in the mission and the people at its heart.
She’s the one who answers when a donor has a question, and a reason a small organization carries the trust it does.
“At this stage of my life, I don’t just want success. I want to do something significant. I want to spend my remaining years building something that outlives me, something that creates opportunity, peace, leadership, and hope for generations.”
The People Who Run the Work
Several of the people below came up through LMTD’s own programs before stepping into leadership themselves.
Meet Our Africa Executive Team
Benjamin Mulonda
Mulonda Benjamin leads LMTD’s Africa team as Acting President. He built his leadership through the Landmark Forum and Introduction Leadership Program, both from Landmark Worldwide, the leadership-training organization LMTD partners with. He uses it now to serve his community in Kakuma. He does this work because he believes in serving the world and giving back.
Ebengo Honoré
Honore Ebengo Alfani serves as LMTD’s Special Programs Director, leading community peacebuilding initiatives and helping expand the organization’s impact across refugee and underserved communities. As the founder of the Advocacy Initiative for Youth Development (AIYD) in Kakuma Refugee Camp, he brings extensive experience in humanitarian leadership, youth empowerment, and sustainable community development, strengthening LMTD’s mission through strategic partnerships and grassroots action.
Godfrey Sangu
Godfrey Sangu became the first refugee Introduction Leader in the world for Landmark Worldwide. He helped design LMTD’s Peace and Conflict Resolution program and supervised the women’s program in Kakuma. The work shaped his leadership and his commitment to building something better for his community.
Moses Bahati
Newly promoted to site inspector, Moses Bahati handles accounting and social media for LMTD in Kakuma. Across four years with the organization, he’s worked in social media, grant writing, and peace campaign advocacy, and watched it support women, youth, and refugees year after year.
Roda Amin
Roda Amin reports for World Business News as a correspondent representing Kakuma and Africa. She uses her platform to tell the stories of women in leadership: their struggles, their strength, and the impact they continue to make.
Joseph James Udoh
Joseph James Udoh is Lead Editor and Publisher of World Business News-Africa. He came up through LMTD and credits it with much of his growth in confidence and purpose, which he puts now toward telling the stories of the work across the continent.
Ngoe Thomas
Ngoe Thomas leads community work in the Adagom settlement in Nigeria. He discovered LMTD through Wendy’s bakery project in Kakuma, came up through the Change Agent Course and the Landmark Forum alongside ten others, and is now building a bakery of his own in Adagom.
Harriet Silume
Harriet serves as LMTD’s Women’s Education Lead in Zambia. She joined in 2019 as a student at the Youth Community Training Center, then became one of the first educators the organization sponsored for advanced programs, including the Landmark Forum, ILP, and Women’s Leadership Program. She now mentors women building their own confidence, resilience, and leadership.
Olasunkanmi Ibrahim
Olasunkanmi Ibrahim is a corporate and commercial lawyer, governance advisor, and development professional with an LLB, BL, and MBA. He advises startups, SMEs, nonprofits, and investors on governance, compliance, and strategic partnerships. He has supported over $1.7 billion in investments and infrastructure projects across Africa, the United States, and the Middle East, while also contributing to youth empowerment, refugee support, rural development, and capacity-building initiatives.
Gafar Opeyemi Ajibade
Gafar Opeyemi Ajibade is the Director of Programs at Let’s Make the Difference Inc., coordinating NGO initiatives that drive community development across Africa. An economist and software engineer, he specializes in building scalable, user-focused digital solutions and continues to advance his expertise in full-stack development and modern web technologies.
Akso Kaposho . M.
Seven years ago, Akso Kaposho was sponsored to attend the Landmark Forum and graduated as a Coach. He has since led women’s forums, helped run projects in Kakuma, and represented LMTD with outside partners. His work has planted 600 trees, engaged over 2,000 people in peace campaigns, trained 46 women in leadership, and connected with 6 refugee-led initiatives.
Meet Our US-Based Executive Team
Jose D. Rodrigues
Jose is the Director of Business & Resource Development. He has over 10 years of experience in business and loves being a part of the Let’s Make The Difference team. His passion is teaching and servant-leadership. He demonstrates this by always being available to manage team projects, leading corporate meetings, and creating training materials. He completed the Advanced course at Landmark which is a featured offering provided by our Landmark partners.
When not at work, Jose teaches professional celebrity video game players as an internationally sought-after coach and is a full-time student earning a Master’s in IT Management while five of his students earn their Bachelor’s degree at his university.
Arvelle Whitaker
Arvelle Whitaker directs branding, content creation, and digital outreach for LMTD. He works to share the stories of refugee leaders and community partners through social media, video content, and strategic communications that advance the organization’s mission.
Introduced to LMTD by mentor Jose Rodrigues, Arvelle joined the organization to develop his leadership skills while helping create meaningful change in under-resourced communities. His background includes information technology, cybersecurity, and digital media, allowing him to combine technical expertise with creative storytelling.
When away, Arvelle enjoys creative writing, technology projects, fitness, and continuing his education in Information Technology Management.
Xavier Wilson
Xavier Wilson is a youth development leader and martial arts professional developing courses for LMTD encouraging discipline, structure, and opportunity for young people. With years of experience as a boxing coach, educator, and program builder, he uses sport and mentorship as tools to help youth move away from harmful environments and toward leadership through personal growth. Inspired by LMTD’s mission across Africa, Xavier brings a shared vision of community transformation through empowerment, education, and strategic partnerships that create long-term impact for under-resourced youth populations.
Stand with the people doing the work.
Every program on this page is led by someone living in the community it serves. When you give, your gift reaches them directly, verified and accounted for. Give once or give monthly, and meet the team in person if you make the trip to Kakuma.