Prof Elishiba Njeri Kimani is a Professor at Kenyatta University, Department of Sociology, Gender and Development Studies, where she has been a Lecturer since October 1990. She obtained her Doctorate (PhD) in Gender, Education and Development Studies in December 1998 at the same university, having obtained a bachelor’s degree in Education (BED-Arts) and a master’s degree in Education (Primary Education Option (PTE) in 1977 and 1983 respectively, from University of Nairobi (UON). She is currently serving as the Dean in Graduate School of Kenyatta University since November 2018, having served as an Associate Dean in the same school since May 2013, and a Director of Kenyatta University Students’ Mentoring Program from 2006 to 2013. Prof Elishiba Kimani is a renowned researcher and a scholar in areas of Gender, Sociology Education and Development studies. She has also disseminated a wide range of gender-related knowledge through many publications, presentations in conferences, seminars, and workshops.    She has a wide range of knowledge, experience and skills in conducting gender related research, audits, analysis, assessments and  mappings for scholarly purposes,  to inform policies and programming as well as for  use  in  research,  trainings  different categories of stakeholders in diverse engagements  and  socio-cultural  contexts  while  employing  gender  and  feminist  research approaches as well as participatory methodologies, which  enable  the  participants  to  share  their  knowledge,  live  experiences  and perceptions without inhibition. At the core in her area of expertise is passion in gender perspective, mainstreaming and women empowerment, having worked for many years as a researcher, trainer and facilitator in many institutions involving all categories of stakeholders of both genders, age and engagements and at all levels-from grass root communities, politicians, officers in public, private institutions, CSOs, INGOs as well as policy makers.