Interests
Girls in STEM mentorship
In 2014, I was selected as an emerging leader by TechWomen for a mentorship course in Silicon Valley in the US. This opportunity opened up new possibilities and interests for me, specifically around voluntary and community initiatives with a focus on mentoring girls in STEM.
Since then, as a co- director for our local CBO, TechWomen Kenya, I perform a myriad of activities to support our programs training girls, these include drafting grant proposals, resource mobilization such as reaching out to schools and county govts, training mentors to assist us in training girls, managing project finances, and of course, the best part of it all, training girls on an experiential STEM curriculum that we have designed to specifically align to problem solving and employment opportunities in line with SDGs.
Our Paying it forward story attempts to capture and measure the impact of a passion that is a big part of my life.
Meetup love
I love learning. And Sharing. I've learned a great way to do this is by leading and contributing to events and forums for people with similar interests. As such, I'm a co-organizer for the monthly Agile KE meetup in Nairobi, where we organize as well as speak, run workshops, source for sponsorship as well as run logistics.
Our meetups are focused on improving agility practice and fostering an agile community. We've been around for slightly more than a year, and have spoken at the Agile Africa Conference in Jo'burg on our journey. Our community is currently over 1000 members and steadily growing.
We are now also bringing conferences closer to agilists in Kenya, one such initiative is the first Agile camp in Kenya.
2019, is when I co-formed a monthly quality engineering meetup testing event after several internal and external pushes to do so! Our little testing community is growing by the day and so far, we've run meetups on test automation, heuristics testing, exploratory testing and show and tells at various local companies with software quality teams.
