Ajamu KitwanaSenior VP/Director, Community Impact
As SVP/Director, Community Impact, Ajamu supports ESL’s mission to share our financial success and reinvest in our community. Ajamu leads ESL’s Community Impact team and its commitment to collaboration to build a healthy, resilient, and equitable Greater Rochester community. To achieve this vision, Ajamu and the Community Impact team manage key initiatives of expanding individual opportunity, building strong neighborhoods, and strengthening organizations and systems. The Foundation provides grants to many community initiatives driving meaningful and measurable change in the Great Rochester area.
Ajamu originally joined ESL Federal Credit Union in fall 2013 as the manager of the new ESL Consumer Prosperity Program, established to enhance community solutions for financial inclusion. In January 2016, Ajamu was promoted to Executive Director of the ESL Charitable Foundation (Foundation), and to Vice President in 2018.
Prior to joining ESL, Ajamu was a management consultant with FSR Social Impact Advisors and worked on a variety of collective impact, shared value and social justice initiatives.
Ajamu received a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds both his Bachelor and Master of Science Degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. He presently serves on the WXXI Board of Trustees.
For questions about Community Impact at ESL, or to inquire about grants, please email impact@esl.org.
