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Rachael Mwikali Mueni.

Introduction

Rachael Mwikali Mueni was Born and raised in Mathare slums in Nairobi Kenya, Mwikali is a grassroots women rights activist and feminist activist.She is also the convener and the leader of Coalition for Grassroots Human Rights Defenders Kenya, a social movement for the Grassroots Activists and Human Rights Defenders, which enhances the work of defending Human Rights and Social Justice that is supported through Solidarity and capacity Building. She coordinates The Pan-African Grassroots Women Liberation Movement, which works to unite grassroots African women and empowers them to take up leadership positions, defend, protect and promote women's Rights. Rachael has been at the forefront in empowering women in informal settlements to take up leadership in the society. She works towards changing patriarchal systems and other societal systems that work against women and girl.

Early Life.

She is motivated by the personal struggles she has undergone as a young woman growing up in an informal settlement in Mathare, Born 25 years ago, She went to Mathare North primary school for her primary education and St Theresa Girls High School and later studied social work and community development at Zetech University and studied Leadership And Ontology an international course under Multi media University Kenya.

Career.

Rachael Mwikali is the Assistant chairperson for Kenyan Human Rights Defenders Award jury that has been hosted by the Dutch/Netherlands embassy Nairobi^].She was a Delegate representing the African youth and women by giving an opening  Key note remarks at African land policy conference in UNECA ADDIS-ETHIOPIA 2017. Mwikali is a leader of Msafara Africa-oxfam pan African programme. She has also been part of right to housing rights movement  [AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL KENYA] campaigns condemning forceful evictions in Nairobi informal settlement  and participated in the first urban thinkers campus  in Kenya process on the urban development agenda in Kenya hosted in UNHABITAT Compound in 2015 and recognized by the UNHABITAT as the emerging community champion. she co convened the NAIROBI Womens March 2017 in solidarity with the American sisters. She was part of a team that localized the Swedish Foreign Feminist policy in Kenya with students and Women that are part of The Coalition for Grassroots Human Rights Defenders Kenya in partnership with the Swedish Embassy in Kenya.

Awards.

Rachael won the We Effect Lobbyist For Change Award in 2016, she was recognized for fighting for women's rights in the informal settlement.