Lana is a Bay Area native who briefly lived in Los Angeles for university. While she attended USC, she studied international relations, watched too many football games, and spent a summer in Geneva interning at an NGO working with the UN. After school she moved to San Francisco and spent the last five years working in the tech industry, most recently at Airbnb. This past year she left Airbnb and spent four months traveling in Europe before coming back to California to pursue a career in international development. Lana has been lending on Kiva for 10 years, and she’s excited to work with Kiva partners this coming year in Tanzania and Kenya. When she’s not trying to learn Swahili for her time in Africa, she can be found baking, cheering on the Warriors, and volunteering at the SPCA.