Kendi Juma serves as the Development Associate where she works with the leadership team to shape the organization’s strategic direction including fundraising efforts. Kendi has for 3 years supported non-profits in their transition to scale by leading strategy and collaboration efforts.

Her academic background in Law from the University of Nairobi has shaped her understanding of the complexity of contemporary African governance systems, policymaking, human rights, democracy, and governance in Africa’s legal and political systems. She also holds an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford where her research focused on women’s social and economic mobility in Kenya. She is passionate about development issues, and specifically, uneven power dynamics and socio-economic changes that result from state-led ideas of development. Her mission is to champion for contextually appropriate sustainable development solutions that factor in the knowledge, practices and existing socio-economic structures of local communities.