I am passionate about environmental conservation and management, climate change and community adaptations towards sustainable practices to environment and socio-economic development. While all these interests are different from each other; I am trying to carve out my career through exploring how they all intersect and relate to each other to enhance sustainable society both for the mankind and the environment. I am currently pursuing double degree PhD program between University of Nairobi and University of Copenhagen (KU), I pursued Masters in Environmental Governance at Wangari Maathai Institute (Forest Governance), and BSc. Environmental Conservation and Natural Resources Management (First Class Honors) University of Nairobi. I have attended short courses at United Nations University in Tokyo-Japan; For United Nation Systems in Sustainable Development and the Natural Capital and Biodiversity Conservation. Training on Research Methodologies by Professors from Bonn University and University of Cologne. Extensive data analysis knowledge using Exel, SPSS and STATA. I have gained extensive knowledge on Field work especially with rural communities in a multicultural set up during my fellowship with CIFOR where I also co-authored some articles related to forest governance.

My PhD research focuses on the implications of adaptation strategies for land use and land needs among the Maasai and Samburu pastoral communities in Kenya; Case of Kajiado and Samburu County. The thesis of this study therefore revolves around the following questions; (i) What are the existing climate change adaptation strategies among the Maasai and Samburu pastoralists in the past 30 years? (ii) How are adaptation strategies interacting with pastoralists land use and land needs? (iii) How do differences in wealth, gender and social networks affect people’s land needs and access for adaptation? The study will collect both primary and secondary data. Mixed method research design will be used for data collection, field work and surveys both quantitative and qualitative surveys will be used. Integration of the research findings will be used during the results interpretation.