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Top 40 Under 40 Women Feted : Dr. Fiona Moejes Named in Business Daily’s Top 40 Under 40
Daily Nation
On August 31st 2025; Mawazo Institute’s CEO, Dr. Fiona Wanjiku Moejes and Director of Finance Elizabeth Ngala, were featured in the Daily Nation following the recognition of Business Daily’s Top 40 Under 40 Women. The annual list is one of Kenya’s most prestigious platforms for spotlighting young women leaders under 40 who are driving change across diverse sectors, including business, technology, culture, sports, and advocacy.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:
To make water last year-round, Kenyans in dry regions are building sand dams on seasonal rivers – March 2024
On 25th March, the Associated Press published a story citing 2021 Mawazo Fellow Dorcas Benard as an expert. The piece explores how Kenyans living in drought stricken regions of the country have resorted to constructing sand dams on seasonal water...
NewsPaper
Africa: Why Govts must chart course on tackling emerging disease threats – January 2024
Dr. Thérèse Umuhoza, 2021 Mawazo Fellow and current Associate Director at Global Public Health and Development, Africa at Holden Fitzgerald published an OpEd in the Rwandan online newspaper Newspaper.Africa on “Why Governments must chart [a] course on tackling emerging disease...
NewsPaper Africa:
Oral health affects overall health, it should not take a back seat – January 2024
Dr. Peace Uwambaye, 2021 Mawazo Fellow and Senior Lecturer at University of Rwanda’s College of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, published an OpEd in Newspaper.Africa, a Rwandan online newspaper. Dr. Peace’s article, “Oral Health affects overall health, and...
Daily Nation:
Let Women be at the Heart of Climate Change Conversations – December 2023
The Daily Nation published an opinion piece by Mawazo Institute’s Communications Lead Carolyne Tunnen that calls for more inclusion in climate change discourse. The piece centres the numerous threats that climate change offers women in Africa, as well as various...
Daily Nation:
Inequality, Women in research jumping higher hurdles – November 2022
The Daily Nation profiled three Mawazo Alumni: Yvonne Githiora, Evaline Sang’, and Dr. Thérèse Umuhoza. The researchers outlined their own personal experiences as women in academia, emphasizing the constraints that appeared in their PhD journies due to their gender. The...