Country / Where did you grow up:
Nyeri, Kenya
Academic qualifications:
Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Kenyatta University Kenya;
Post-Graduate Diploma in Law (Advocates Training Program), Kenya School of Law;
International Training Program (Sustainable Development and Human Rights), University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Experience:
Assistant Programme Officer-Legal and Social Justice Programme, Refugee Consortium of Kenya;
Intern Lawyer-Kenya Human Rights Commission; Trainee Advocate-Manyonge Wanyama & Associates Advocates; Intern-The National Legal Aid (and Awareness) Programme;
Judicial Attachee-Kikuyu Law Courts
Academic fields of interest:
The right to (sustainable) development;
The justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights;
Forced migration;
The rights of women;
The rights of sexual and gender-identity minorities;
Transitional justice; Constitutional law and constitutionalism.
Position prior to the programme:
Assistant Programme Officer-Legal and Social Justice Programme, Refugee Consortium of Kenya
