Co-Founder & CEOBuildher
Tatu is an entrepreneur, an architect and a built environment enthusiast. As Buildher’s CEO, Tatu drives the strategic growth and initiatives of the organization, ensuring constant innovation in all aspects of program implementation and development. With over 14 years’ experience in the built environment sector, Tatu has focused her career on exploring the intersection of culture and the built environment both locally and internationally, in a variety of socio-economic and cultural contexts linking her Architectural background to participatory design; community engagement & investment; built environment education; and place making to facilitate physical, social and economic development.
Tatu’s work with Buildher has been recognized both locally and internationally, she was a speaker at both the 2020 UN World Urban Forum (WUF 10) in Abu Dhabi, UAE and the 2020 UK-Africa Investment Summit in London UK. She was awarded a 2020 Honoree for Okay Africa’s 100 Women of Excellence, and was featured on Kayana Kenya's Women to Watch in 2021 series.