Founder and CEOZanaAfrica
Ashoka Fellow Megan Mukuria is an award-winning leader in the field of gender equity, with 22 years’ experience in non-profit and for-profit leadership in Kenya. She built ZanaAfrica from ideation into scaling impact, creating RCT-strength outcomes in menstrual management and sexual and reproductive health and rights (MSRHR) knowledge, and social and gender norms. Their work covers policy, eco-friendly sanitary pad product innovation, national product sales reaching 150K, MSRHR school-based education serving 280K this year, and paired social and behaviour change communication which includes a hotline and AI chatbot for health systems strengthening and referrals. ZanaAfrica’s MSRHR programming for young adolescents and is being scaled into the government curriculum – including addressing MSRHR’s intersection with trauma and mental health. Megan was the youngest President of a Rotary Club in Kenya and is a Founder and past President of the Harvard Club of Kenya.