Nicole Wickenhauser is the Director of Strategic Alliances at Water.org, an innovative nonprofit organization that has been part of the Skoll Foundation awardee community since 2009. Wickenhauser forges and oversees partnerships that fuel the organization’s work around the world.
Water.org addresses a top barrier to safe water and toilets for the poor– access to affordable financing. By transforming local financial markets across Africa, Asia and Latin America to work for the poor, Water.org has reached 10 million people and mobilized more than half a billion dollars in commercial financing. For over a decade, Wickenhauser has advanced Water.org’s exponential growth by providing strategic input into it evolution and serving in senior roles across the communications, marketing and development functions.
Previously, Nicole managed communications, PR and public affairs at organizations including Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies and Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare. With a Master’s in Public Administration and Bachelor of Arts degrees in English Literature and Communication, she has found her life’s focus in the water and sanitation cause.
