my professional experience

I started out as a grassroots community mobiliser in Nairobi, as a youth activist, my priority then was always the issues that affected the people in my community. When I started I was 16 years and back then I was passionate about young mothers, their experiences with accessing services and specifically young mothers with children with disability. It is through working with children with disability that I learned most of my values on inclusion that I still use in my work with survivors of trafficking. As someone, who had gone through violence and had no received any services, my inclination as a young person was to try and make everything that I saw right because no one made it right for me. Civic education and women rights were the next thing that I got involved in. It is through the women rights work that I encountered feminist theory and truly found language for the systemic issues that I saw around me. Feminism gave me a lens, and it gave me language to express the unseen.

Eight years ago, I started working in the human trafficking space by chance as a result of a personal encounter that revealed to me that I was s survivor of trafficking. This revelation automatically led me to human trafficking work and I have not looked back since. My expertise includes:

• Strategic development and management

• Curriculum development

• Training and facilitation

• Mainstreaming of diversity and inclusion

• Project development and management

• Research

• Data management and record keeping