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Meet the Speakers /Megan White Mukuria
Megan White Mukuria (Her/She)
Founder Zanaafrica (Kenya)
Megan White wa Mukuria is a recognized leader in the field of menstrual and reproductive health, with 20+ years’ experience in non-profit and for-profit leadership in Kenya. She successfully built ZanaAfrica from ideation into a recognized leader internationally, creating holistic impact in menstrual heath management through policy, product innovation, sales, rights-based health education in schools, and social and behavior change communication.
She has participated in several global firsts: entrenching sanitary pads into Kenya’s budgets for schoolgirls (2008); formulating the first Menstrual Hygiene Policy (2013-2020); creating a mobile app to coordinate pad distribution in schools (2013); developing intellectual property of non-wood pulps on commercial pad machines (2012-2015); and, creating a “Fast Moving Educational Good” to leverage fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs) into a mechanism for consumer education while expanding access to primary healthcare services. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.