Kunda is a dynamic collaborator who inspires everyone with whom she works to realize and achieve their full potential in overcoming poverty, inequality, and violence. Kunda holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management from Keller Graduate School and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Sociology from The City University of New York. She is a Certified Master Career Counselor (MCC) designated by the National Career Development Association and a Career Transition & Job Development Coach Certified by the Career Development Network. Kunda currently serves as Program Director for CareerCatchers a nonprofit in Silver Spring, MD
Courage is taking the hard road to benefit and serve the unrecognized or undeserved. Job placement and career and life coaching are opportunities available to those already well poised with access to opportunities. But the chronic underemployed, especially domestic violence victims/survivors and immigrants, are fundamentally lacking these valuable services. Few organizations provide individualized career and life coaching counseling for the struggling populations who need it the most. For more than fifteen years, Kunda has worked as a recruiter and career counselor. Her career has spanned from university-level career counseling to high-end executing recruitment. While working in this sector, she came to realize the service gap to underemployed, vulnerable populations. Upon recognizing the desperate need for such services and meeting clients from those populations, Kunda left the security of a high-paying, high-performing job as an executive recruiter to serve those populations most in need of her holistic approach to career/life counseling. These populations include women in transition, such as domestic violence survivors, the homeless, and the immigrant population of Montgomery County in Maryland. Her desire and commitment to serve and give back exemplify the power one can have in making a difference in a community. Her ability to see others in their full human dignity—not in their current circumstances—demonstrates her true courage. The greatest tragedy to social progress and human development is our inability to see each other in our humanity. This is without a doubt one of Kunda’s ingredients to success in helping people transition from chronic underemployment to employability as they relaunch their lives.
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