Over the year, she led Ubongo's operations most importantly it's commercial strategy, market expansion efforts across Africa, and language adaption and content distribution.

[3] It is estimated that over 30 million family households in 41 countries in Africa watch and learn from Ubongo cartoons every week.

Prior to Ubongo, Kessy worked with a variety of organizations including International Justice Mission, Wells Fargo and Smile Africa, and she designed poverty relief programs implemented in Zimbabwe and Zambia.

[citation needed] Ubongo teaches math and science through animated stories and songs.

Kessy also provides the English voice of one of the characters in the Ubongo animated material, a monkey named Ngedere.