About Lucy Wanjiku Njenga

Lucy Wanjiku Njenga is a highly sought after global speaker, bestselling author, founder and Executive Director of a non-profit organisation Positive Young Women Voices.

She prides herself in creating an enabling environment for other young leaders to thrive and has worked in the HIV responses for more than ten years with experience in establishing feminist movements as well as agitating for gender equality from grass root level to global level. She was the Founding Coordinator of Sauti Skika, the first network of adolescents living with HIV in Kenya which was established after speaking on the same stage with the former President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta.

Lucy has been a speaker and moderator at international conferences such as Commission on the Status of Women in New York, International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam and Montreal, HIV and Women Conference in Seattle, conducted a master class in LifebHIV in London, curated and facilitated a session in IAPAC Conference in Miami and Portugal among others

She serves as the Alternate Board Member in the Country Coordinating Mechanism to the Global Fund and is a former African Delegate to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board.

Lucy has authored, Hope Made A Way – A memoir of her journey of triumph against adversities and inequalities.