Easter Achieng Okech - Executive Director, Kenya Female Advisory Organization (KEFEADO)

Easter Achieng Okech

Executive Director, Kenya Female Advisory Organization (KEFEADO)

Easter Okech is the Executive Director and Programs coordinator of Kenya Female Advisory Organization (KEFEADO). She a passionate, focused and purposed African Feminist and stalwart human rights defender. She Holds Bachelors of Business Administration-Accounting Option from the University of East Africa, Baraton and is a licensed researcher with Licenses and Certificates from CITI Program on Research on Human Subjects and Ethical Research and Social Behavioral Education Research _CITI Program and is a graduate of the African Feminist Macroecomic Academy.

 Her work through intersectional and intergenerational framing has seen her work on gender, diversity and social inclusion by working with women and girls with disability in and out of school through sports and art for change to build agency and power for engagement through a social approach; She has also engaged transformative feminist leadership spaces to transform economic empowerment spaces for women with and without disability through working in engaging organizations of persons with disability (OPDs), youth led organizations and women rights organizations in labor programs in the blue and green economy to access to financial services and upskilling their businesses and linkage to markets.

Her skills has enabled to be nominated as a leader in board of organizations of marginalized and minority groups including women and girls from disadvantaged groups, persons with disability and with key populations. This has enabled her to engage in shaping the agenda at the international and regional level through engagements at the African Union and collaboration with OPDs on submissions at the United Nations on the CRPD, CEDAW and UNFCSS. Her work on intersectional movement building at the community level is recognized as she is an avid champion of tax and social justice for organizations for persons with disability and women from disadvantaged groups. She is an avid researcher on gender, diversity and social inclusion with published research work on the programs she has worked in.