Jacinta Ochoro is a Business Designer at ThinkPlace Kenya with expertise in human centred design, participatory research, and community led innovation. She works across health, education, and protection sectors, designing solutions that place people at the centre while ensuring they deliver long term value for organizations and communities. Drawing on a Master’s degree in Project Planning and Management and a background in sociology and psychology, Jacinta blends strategic thinking with deep empathy to co create impactful, sustainable change.

Across her professional journey, Jacinta has led and contributed to projects for partners such as UNICEF, GAVI, Population Services Kenya, World Reader, Breakthrough Action Kenya, and Village Reach, among others. Her work spans developing toolkits to address violence against children, female genital mutilation, and child marriage; conducting behavioural insights research to inform public health and education interventions; and co designing strategies for social and behaviour change in diverse contexts. She has facilitated multi stakeholder workshops, design sprints, and co creation sessions in humanitarian and development settings, and has strengthened service delivery systems in areas such as maternal and child health, immunization, and digital literacy. Jacinta’s role often involves navigating complex partnerships to ensure alignment, clear communication, and the timely delivery of high-quality outputs that are both user centred and strategically impactful.

Passionate about empowering communities, Jacinta thrives on translating insights into practical, user centred solutions. Her experience spans life skills facilitation, health program coordination, and capacity building for diverse audiences from grassroots community members to government and international partners. She brings strong skills in human centred design, participatory research, project planning and management, stakeholder engagement, behavioural insights, and monitoring and evaluation.