Mukabi Kabira is a professor of Literature at the University of Nairobi and Director of the African Women Studies Centre. She is a writer, a literary critique, and a gender and policy analyst. She has taught oral literature for many years, carried out field work in many parts of the country and published widely. Her first publication done in 1984 has been translated in many languages and set the pace in the field of oral literature in our schools and in the region. Her latest publication in oral literature was in 2010. It is titled Re-claiming My Dreams.   Read More

Lucia Mary Mbithi is a senior Lecturer at the School of Economics, University of Nairobi. She has over 18 years of experience in quantitative and qualitative trade policy analysis and regional integration. Her work also includes areas of gender and development, gender gaps analysis, costing and policy linkages; gender and development, gender strategy development, mainstreaming gender in economic programming, gender, trade and development, gender and cross-border trade. She has undertaken policy analysis work to provide technical assistance to Governments of Kenya, EAC and COMESA countries. She has also provided technical assistance through preparation of technical reports to EAC Secretariat, East African Business Council, East African Women in Business Platforms, among others.  Read More

Dr. Dorothy Njiraine is the Chairperson and Senior Lecturer, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Nairobi, Kenya. She holds a Doctor of Library and Information Science (University of Zululand, South Africa-2011), MSc. in Information Science (Makerere University, Uganda-2005), MBA (Moi University, Kenya-2012), PGD in Librarianship (Makerere University, Uganda- 1998) and B.A. Hons (University of Nairobi, Kenya- 1989).  Read More

Dr. Agnes K. Meroka-Mutua is a researcher, teacher, gender equality advocate and human rights advocate. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Private Law, School of Law, University of Nairobi, where she teaches and supervises in the following areas: Law and Development; Gender and the Law; Human Rights Law; Disability Rights Law. She is a board member at the Africa Co-ordinating Center for the Abandonment of FGM (ACCAF); Member of the Research Team and Assistant Policy Co-ordinator, at the University of Nairobi, Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) Hub; Member of the Research and Training Team, University of Nairobi, Centre for Land Acquisition and Resettlement Studies. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the East African Law Journal, which is published by the University of Nairobi, School of Law. Dr. Meroka-Mutua works directly with communities, sensitizing them on the need to protect the rights of women and girls. She uses research as a tool to promote gender equality and social justice. Her research, teaching and supervision are informed by African philosophies. Read More

Dr. Samuel Wakibi holds a PhD. in Epidemiology from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Master of Science (MSc.) in Population Studies, University of Nairobi, and Bachelor of Science (BSc.) in Statistics and computer science (University of Nairobi). He has been instrumental in the development of a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plan for community health services and strengthening of Community Health Information System (CHIS) and health referral monitoring system for Kenya’s Ministry of Health (MoH). With IntraHealth, he led the development and implementation of Human Resource for health Information System (HRIS) for Ministries of health in Southern Sudan, Kenya, Swaziland, Uganda, Rwanda, and Lesotho. He supported development and maintained demographic surveillance system (DSS) for CDC in Kisumu.  Read More

Prof. Agnes Wakesho Mwangombe is a professor of Plant Pathology, Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences (CAVS) where she served as principal from May 2005 to September 2015. As a researcher and a policy maker, she is actively engaged in agricultural activities, policy formulation and implementation. Prof. Mwangombe’ served as project advisor in the Food Security project from 2013-2015 at African Women Studies Centre.    Read More

Patricia Kameri-Mbote is a Professor of Law and former Dean at the School of Law, University of Nairobi. She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and was conferred the rank of Senior Counsel in 2012. She was a member of the Committee of Eminent Persons appointed by His Excellency the President of Kenya in February 2006 to advise the government on the way forward for the stalled constitution review process. She was also awarded an honorary degree in law by the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2017 for outstanding contribution to research through ground-breaking work cutting across established fields such as Women’s Law, Natural Resources Law, Human Rights and Law and Development. Kameri-Mbote earned her doctorate from Stanford University in 1999 specializing in property rights and environmental law.     Read More

Tabitha Kiriti-Nganga is a Professor of Economics in the School of Economics at the University of Nairobi specializing in International Trade, Gender and Socioeconomic Issues. She attained my PhD from the University of Queensland in Australia, a Diploma in Legal Instruments of International Economic Relations and Regional Integration from the University of Barcelona. She is the Coordinator of UNCTAD Virtual Institute and the Chair of the WTO Chairs Program in the University of Nairobi.    Read More

Dr Collins Odote holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Law from the University of Nairobi, Postdoctoral Fellowship Community Land Rights in Kenya (Strathmore University), Master of Law (University of Nairobi), Bachelor of Law (University of Nairobi) and Diploma in Law (Kenya School of Law). He is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy (CASELAP) and the director of CASELAP, a multidisciplinary and postgraduate unit of the university. He has served at CASELAP since 2010 contributing to its growth by developing its curricula, teaching, and supervising students, coordinating its seminars and colloquia, and establishing collaboration and partnerships. He has over forty articles published to his name, in refereed journals, book chapters, books and monographs. Furthermore, he is a weekly columnist in The Business Daily and has written over 300 columns on diverse topics ranging from the environment, land, elections, education, the Constitution, COVID-19, regional integration, and extractives. He has also attended, spoken at, and written papers for numerous international, regional, national, and local level workshops.    Read More

Peter Wasamba is a Professor of African Literature at the University of Nairobi. He has over 20 years of research and teaching experience at the university level. Prof. Wasamba has served as a university manager for over ten (10) years: as the Chairman, Department of Literature, Associate Dean and thereafter, Dean, Faculty of Arts. Wasamba has BA, MA and PhD degrees in Literature. He also has Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Master of Laws (LLM) degrees, all from the University of Nairobi. He is an experienced gender trainer and researcher with several publications based on projects undertaken with collaborators. Wasamba is an international scholar involved in mentoring next generation academics and students through research and international collaborations.