Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg

Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg is an Executive in Residence at Schmidt Futures born in Kenya. Before that she was Director of African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD).Wanjiru is also the Founder and past Executive Director of Akili Dada,a leadership incubator for African girls and young women and a former Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco. Quotes If we are to address the challenges of our generation, we must be both intellectually and politically courageous in the face of questions of what justice needs to look like. By virtue of this expensive and precious Whitman education, we are called to be part of the solution to very serious challenges. The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice, but it is the committed purposeful actions of change agents who reach into the sky to force the rainbow back to earth. I want to honor the fact that you are graduating into a world that is tight with tension and we, you and I, have real work ahead of us. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg '01 counsels Whitman graduates to do good,Published on May 21, 2017,Whitman College It is men of purpose and women of courage taking that commitment from the home into the workplace. There is a big piece of this that is calling for our men to lead differently and not just make this woman's work. women scientists don’t just survive but thrive, excel and innovate As a continent though, we are going nowhere if we leave 50% of us behind Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg,December 3, 2018,info.asw@mawazoinstitute.org We need to leverage the talents of all innovators, including those of women. Women do the bulk of the work to produce, process and market food. They are on the frontline of agriculture in Africa. Innovation has a critical role to play at every step of the agricultural value chain. Gender equality in African agriculture: An innovation imperative,April 18, 2018,By Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg External links Category:Founders Category:Gender equality activists