Hi! My name is Brenda Wambui (@brendawambui), a young African woman working at the intersections of technology, media, feminism and identity.

For the past eight years, I’ve worked as a digital media consultant and researcher, mainly with feminist advocacy organizations and other NGOs. I host the Otherwise? Podcast, Kenya’s leading current affairs and political podcast. Otherwise? is listened to in 91 countries.

Between 2013 and 2018, I co-founded and headed Brainstorm Africa, an online media organization whose mission is to address the need for critical thought in Kenya, and the rest of Africa. Brainstorm is a leading site for Kenya’s socio-political conversations, and has published over 350 long-form essays since July 2013, which have been read by people in 148 countries. We have also published four e-books (available at http://www.brendawambui.com/books/) on Kenyan feminisms, mental health, security, and what it means to be at home in Kenya.

Because of my work, I have been invited to speak on Kenyan media outlets such as NTV, KTN, and Nation FM, global media outlets such as Al Jazeera, BBC, and Deutsche Welle, and conferences such as re:publica in Berlin and Accra, Highway Africa, the Power Reporting Conference, the Shoko Festival, RightsCon, the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, CREA’s re:conference, among others. I have also been invited to speak on her expertise at universities globally, including Lund University, the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Johannesburg. I have been recognized as an Ashoka – AMEX Emerging Innovator, and I am an Acumen Fellow. Previously, I was an advisor at FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund, where I advised the organization in its grantmaking activities, and its grantees on feminist advocacy.

I hold a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from Strathmore University, and I am an ACCA Affiliate. I am currently pursuing an MSc in Public Policy and Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) as an Ambassador E.O. Kolade scholar.