Founder and CEOZanaAfrica
Ashoka Fellow Megan White wa Mukuria is a recognized leader in the field of gender equity and specifically the role menstrual health plays in accessing full rights, with 23 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 through policy, product innovation, sanitary pad sales, rights-based health education, and social and behavior change communication that benefitted over 400,000 last year. ZanaAfrica’s proven intervention, developed from over a decade of listening to girls, changes gender norms and reproductive health knowledge for adolescents in just 18 months and is being scaled up with government into the public school curriculum, with plans for multi-country expansion. Their business arm turned over $480,000 last year and delivers health outcomes through retail sales of sanitary pads. Megan is a founding Board member of the Harvard Club of Kenya.