Experienced Founder and systems influencer with a demonstrated history of working in non-profits and business in Kenya. Successfully built ZanaAfrica from ideation into a recognized leader internationally in gender equity, health systems strengthening, and menstrual health. We have creating holistic and intersectional impact in menstrual heath management through policy, product innovation, sales of consumer goods, school-based delivery of health and rights education, and social and behavior change communication that benefits over 70,000 monthly. ZanaAfrica’s proven curriculum intervention, developed from over a decade of listening to girls and their families, changes gender norms and reproductive health knowledge permanently for adolescents in just 18 months and is being scaled up with KICD into all national schools, with plans for multi-country expansion. Our sanitary pads, under the brand name Nia, are sold in commercial markets across 38 counties. We have our own patentable intellectual property for local manufacturing and are currently raising blended capital to reach 1 million consumers by 2026, with Vitol Foundation as our anchor investor.My experience spans human-centered design, talent recruitment, strategic planning, ecosystem building, fundraising, board building and governance, leadership in both for- and non-profits, and more. I have lived in Kenya now for over 22 years and have been recognized for my leadership locally and internationally, being a graduate of FastForward, East Africa's Premiere Leadership Program, as well as an Ashoka Fellow since 2007, and a Boerhinger Ingelheim Making More Health Fellow amongst other fellowships. I have given numerous TED-style keynotes and have shifted governments and funders priorities in menstrual, sexual, and reproductive health and rights.