
Mary Kate Cartmill
Associate Manager
Mary Kate Cartmill is an associate manager II of food systems and nutrition at Tanager. In this role, she works across Tanager’s East and West Africa portfolios to provide strategic project management and nutrition technical support to projects focused on sustainable value chain development, youth development and entrepreneurship, and gender and nutrition integration within agriculture institutions. Prior to joining Tanager, Mary Kate worked on research teams studying inclusive education in Afghanistan and Pakistan using a community-based, system dynamics approach as well as the intersection of sustainable aquatic food systems and child and maternal nutrition in East Africa. Mary Kate holds a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Michigan and a Master of Public Health from Washington University in St. Louis.


