Speakers
The inaugural TEDx Nairobi was such a great experience. The following speakers covered various topics that kept the crowd talking.
Paula Kahumbu
Paula is an ecologist and a passionate tree hugger. She spent many years studying monkeys and elephants in Kenya and worked for the Kenya Wildlife Service on wildlife policy, trade and park management and later managed a quarry restoration company. She is passionate about Africa and conservation, saving wild species and wild places – all for a purely selfish reason, so that she can enjoy them. Her goal is to encourage all people to love nature. She is the executive Director of Wildlife Direct, Inc.
www. wildlifedirect.org
Moses Kemibaro
Moses is an avid Digital Marketer, Blogger and self-confessed Internet addict. For over a decade he has championed Kenya’s Internet, from connecting Kenya’s first dial-up Internet customers to developing and managing ambitious website projects for some of East Africa’s largest businesses. In 2002, he co-founded Dotsavvy and grew it from a bootstrapped bedroom enterprise to one of Kenya’s leading Web Agencies. Last year, Moses won the Youth Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Kenya Institute of Management’s (KIM) Annual Business Awards.
www.moseskemibaro.com
Nyokabi Musila
Nyokabi is a health care professional and honorary post-doctoral research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. She works in national health policy development in the public sector and academia, with a focus on equity of access and quality of care. Nyokabi is a Science Ambassador who facilitates hands-on workshops for youth, enabling them to visualise the application of their science subjects to the ‘real world’. She also blogs on the intersect between science and culture at Sci-cultura.
www.sci-cultura.com
Muthoni
Muthoni is one of East Africa’s finest singers, songwritters, flow poets and percussionists. Since 2007, Muthoni has been performing a blend of Afro-based sounds combined with elements of Jazz and Poetry to create a uniquely entertaining sound. Her Debut Album “Mambo Bado” was well received and has seen Muthoni become a greatly sought-after performer in various forums, including international festivals such as Sauti za Busara 2008, East meets South Jazz festival 2009 and Selam Music festival (Addis 2009). Her music is a thought-provoking exploration of themes common to the African urban youth such as politics, relationships and spirituality.
www.muthonimusic.com
Boniface Mwangi
Boniface Mwangi is an award winning photojournalist based in Kenya. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Sunday Times, International Herald Tribune and BBC Focus in Africa Magazine among other International publications. He is the first Kenyan to be named the CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year 2008.
www.bonifacemwangi.com
Tonee Ndungu
Tonee Ndungu is a guy with a passion for living and an uncanny way of inspiring people. After graduating with an International Relations and Journalism degree, he founded a youth organization aimed at using new media to help Kenya’s youth rediscover the joys of self expression, self assertion and self reliance. “The story of my life is rather simple; it is complex. The least important part is that I, like everyone else, has had the opportunity to change my world. The most important part is that I have taken that on spiritedly, unlike most people I know.” That, I think, is a good way to start your eulogy.
www.wazimba.org
Elizabeth Njoroge
Elizabeth Njoroge is the founder of Art of Music whose aim is to promote art (classic & ethnic) music in Kenya. She is the editor of Classics Magazine, presents a weekly radio show on one of the top radio stations in Kenya and promotes classical music events around Kenya.
www.artofmusic.co.ke
Kwame Nyong’o
Cross-cultural study and travel, music, media and technology are what drive Kwame Nyong’o. An an illustrator, animator, storyboard artist and character designer, Kwame is an advocate for the promotion of arts and animation in Africa. His recent projects include the UNESCO Africa Animated! project, in which he served as an animation trainer and production coordinator. Kwame teaches animation in various institutions in Nairobi. Besides teaching, he is a freelance artist and serves clients in Kenya, the United States and the international community.
www.kwamenyongo.com
Aly-Khan Satchu
Aly-Khan Satchu was born in Mombasa, studied Law at the University of Durham and worked for 15 years in London. He ran global trading desks for Credit Suisse First Boston (Emerging Markets) and experienced the financial crisis of Latin America in 1994 -a time when he had lent more than $2 billion in that market. Since 2003, Aly-Khan has been trading his own funds primarily Commodities, Currency Futures and Options, Equity Indices and Single Stocks. Aly-Khan is an Investor at the Nairobi Stock Exchange, The USE and various other African Stockmarkets. In 2006, he published his book “Anyone Can Be Rich”, based on the NSE and the Kenyan Economy.
www.rich.co.ke
Crystal Watley
Crystal was born on the 15th anniversary of Jamhuri Day, a Kenyan-American. She studied ICT for development, and is the Executive Director of a Non-Governmental Organization named Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development. Crystal is a Senior Executive with three local Kenyan companies, and most importantly a development innovator. “The road to where I am today has been long and strenuous, but through faith, creativity, and determination, I know we will change the future of Kenya”.
www.voicesofafrica.info
