Co-chair of the IIFB
Regional Coordinator for AFRICA
Kenya – Maasai

Lucy Mulenkei is a Masai woman from Kenya, with expertise on the sustainable development of Kenya’s Indigenous pastoralist communities. After 17 years in reporting on environmental issues within rural Kenya and the East African region as a broadcast journalist, she became an activist coordinating training and capacity building for Indigenous rural nomadic pastoralist and hunter-gatherers, focusing on traditional knowledge and biodiversity.

She co-founded the Indigenous Women Biodiversity Network.  She is currently the President of the African Indigenous Women’s Organization in the East Africa region, Executive Director of the Indigenous Information Network, and Vice President of the International Indigenous Women’s Forum.