About Wanjiku Mwangi

WANJIKU MWANGI, Racial Wealth Divide Initiative Leader

ext.117, wmwangi@faireconomy.org

Wanjiku Mwangi is UFE's Racial Wealth Divide (RWD) Initiative Leader and co-author of several State of the Dream reports. She is a native Kenyan, but has done most of her professional work in Uganda over the last 12 years. She has been a US resident 2002, travelling frequently to East Africa mostly doing consultancy work in social development, and directly working with British Council doing program development and evaluation.

She was also coordinating "reality tours" for Global Exchange in Uganda and conducting research, strategic planning, and designing participatory activities for non profits. Through that work, she has developed connections with US-based organizations and foundations, including IFP-Ford Foundation.

She has previously been with the Christian Children Fund, Kenya, and Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Uganda, and the Kenyan Human Rights Commission. She has a bachelor degree from the University of Nairobi in Sociology / Literature, and a MA degree in International Development from Development Studies Centre in Dublin, Ireland.

Central to all her earlier appointments and assignments, is a keen interest in the interlinking of human rights and economic development, to create meaningful livelihoods for the majority of people in East Africa. She is an ardent advocate of making use of diversity that exists in society in a creative and positive to improve social and economic inclusion.

She is the vice chair of Voluntary Services Overseas, Jitolee (VSOJ), an international development charity that works through volunteers, with its headquarters in Nairobi.

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