Ms. Wontamo immigrated from Ethiopia. Ms. Wontamo has expertise and experience providing community services to refugees and migrants, and expertise concerning the issue of human trafficking. She is serving as a Senior Vice President of a global a global Christian humanitarian organization which is one of the world’s leading refugee resettlement agencies. World Relief (WR) aims to help refugees as soon as a refugee and their families are forced to flee their homes, starting by providing essentials to the families, such as clean water and food, and then assisting refugees regain potentially lost hope and grow even further by offering family strengthening programs.

World Relief also seeks to help refugees find an affordable home and a job. Because WR is headquartered in the U.S., it assists refugees in learning English if they do not know it already. Since 1979, WR has successfully relocated and supported over 300,000 refugees in the U.S. Ms. Wontamo leads the organization’s U.S. division, which administers refugee resettlement and immigrant service initiatives nationwide. Working through a network of offices and in close partnership with affiliated organizations, WR U.S. Programs provide vital services to those in need, including strategic direction to ensure the efficient implementation of WR programs while upholding organizational mission.