One of her pillars has been the family of Chief Justice Martha Koome, who was the center of attention in the Supreme Court’s presidential petition.
While Koome pursued several career routes to achieve their own success, going from being a women’s rights activist to being a Supreme Court judge and president of the supreme court,
The 62-year-old CJ is married and has three children: two daughters, Kagwiria Koome and Nkirote Koome, and a son, Kelvin Koome.
Kagwiria occupies a top position in The Rockefeller Foundation, a multinational organization based in the United States, thanks to her extensive experience in numerous sectors, including governance, ICT, agriculture, and health.
The foundation works to alleviate some of the world’s problems by advancing human welfare worldwide via innovation, science, and technology.
Rockefeller has currently contributed more than Ksh2.6 trillion to program projects around the world.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Kagwiria oversees the foundation’s food initiative sector, with a particular emphasis on implementing systems to offer nourishing foods while protecting the environment.
Kagwiria is currently in her seventh year at the foundation and has honed her talents in a variety of positions, including developing strategies, conducting policy analyses, and assessments.
Along with other things, she also conducts institutional evaluations and qualitative surveys.
Kagwiria claims that she is inspired by her mother in an article titled Let’s Collect and Preserve the Advice of Experts that was published on The Rockefeller Foundation.
“He worked largely with smallholder farmers in central Kenya to provide agronomy support. When I began working on the YieldWise initiative, I went to him for counsel. While speaking to him and other experts, I realized that they had a wealth of information that remained with them instead of gathering together in a single place and reaching the community,” she stated.
She thus worked to create a toolbox to make sure professionals have access to information and advice to help them make decisions and that future investors can also benefit from The Rockefeller Foundation’s research.
She continued, “Two areas I am passionate about are the how-to guides that offer the steps to build technologies such as the charcoal cooler and zero energy cooling chambers, and the section on communication that includes training materials and messaging that can be used in various ways.”
She was a management consultant before beginning work at the Rockefeller Foundation in September 2014, assisting governments and development organizations across Africa with strategy planning, program design, and investment decisions.
Kagwiria holds degrees in law from Keele University in the United Kingdom and international development from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.
Source: Kenyans.co.ke
