Ashoka Fellow | Founder, ZanaAfrica
Ashoka Fellow Megan Mukuria began ZanaAfrica in 2007 to create a systems-change to solve the issue of sustainable delivery of sanitary pads and health education for the 4 in 5 girls and women in East Africa who currently lack access. Megan brings 19 years of leadership in Kenya in non-profits and creating urban and rural businesses. Megan built ZanaAfrica from concept to a hybrid social enterprise with diversified funding from governments, foundations, and impact investors. ZanaAfrica has grown to 22 staff and annual impact of >50,000 girls and women. Pad sales launched in 2014 and this year Eveready East Africa signed on to be the exclusive distributor of ZanaAfrica’s Nia brand pads.
Megan was the youngest President of a Rotary Club in Kenya when she was only 26. She holds a B.A from Harvard in Cognitive Neuroscience and is a founding Board Member of the Harvard Club of Kenya. She is a recent alumna of Sunny Bindra’s FastForward leadership program. Megan is about to celebrate her 10th wedding anniversary to a Kenyan who is in the intersection of education, conservation, and creative arts, and has a trilingual three year-old, Tai Njoki.
