A lawyer specialising in human rights advocacy and commercial law.

She currently serves on the Global Board of Amnesty International and as a Director of Cleanstart.

Ngamau is also an accredited Leadership and Business Coach of over nine years, an NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, and a Hypnotherapist.

Media personality, Ngamau, was awarded the Women Advancing Africa award by the Graca Machel Trust this year.

As a result of her advocacy work in media, Ngamau has also been hailed as an African Women in Media Champion.

She is a past Chairperson of Amnesty International Kenya, the Kenyan chapter of Amnesty international and an enthusiastic evangelist for building grass root leadership and a relentless advocate of the Amnesty Kenya’s Circles of Conscience, a program to bring together, empower and support local and grassroots movements, and special interest groups focused on human rights, dignity, professionalism, integrity and action, within the civic space and beyond.

As a result of her efforts to protest the illegal appropriation of open and communal spaces by private parties and to support women in starting and growing businesses, Renee has been featured in local and international media, including Citizen, Peoples' Daily, Reuters Foundation, and others.

She has also been recognized and awarded the prestigious Moving Mountains Award 2020 by the global organization, United Success Global.

Ngamau runs ReneeSense Ltd, a coaching and training company that works with female entrepreneurs looking to start, grow or pivot their businesses.

Her mission is to support 1 million women entrepreneurs on the continent to confidently run successful businesses that hire and abundantly remunerate at least five other women with salaries in the top tier salary scale of their respective countries.

Ngamau is credited with bringing communities together and nurturing leadership.

Through her work as a volunteer for CleanStart, an organization for formerly incarcerated women, Renee works to support women to entrepreneurship and to find their voices.

This week, Channel Africa salutes Renee Ngamau as an extraordinary African who has been a champion of change.

Source: kayana.org

–Mandisa Magwaza–