Nkatha Kabira is a poet, author and Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Nairobi. She is an Iso Lomso (“eye of tomorrow”) Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch (STIAS), South Africa, a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin (Wiko), a Fellow of the Africa Science Leadership Programme, University of Pretoria and a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Program on Social Sciences at Princeton University. She is a fellow at the Ife Institute for Advanced Studies, Nigeria, a fellow at the Intercontinental Academia (ICA) and a member of the Global Young Academy. Nkatha was also recently appointed as a Distinguished Africanist Scholar at the Institute of African Development at Cornell University. She completed her doctoral degree at Harvard Law School (HLS) in May 2015 and has professional and research experience in law, democracy, gender and governance. She lectures widely and has taught both in Nairobi and at Harvard and has received awards in recognition of excellence in teaching. She completed the Master of Laws Program at HLS in 2008 and holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Nairobi and a postgraduate diploma in legal practice from the Kenya School of Law. She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.