Wawira Njiru
Founder and Executive Director, Food for Education
Wawira is the Founder and Executive Director of Food for Education, a Kenyan social enterprise that serves nutritious and low-cost meals to public primary school students. The organization uses cutting-edge technology to create a sustainable financial model that delivers tens of thousands of meals each day. A Stanford School alumni, she is the youngest recipient of the University of South Australia’s alumni award 2017, a 2018 Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a recipient of the Builders of Africa Award 2018 and one of 2018’s Top 40 under 40 women in Kenya. She is also the first recipient of the Global Citizen Youth Leadership Prize 2018 presented by Cisco, a Ford Foundation Global Fellow 2020 and a Young Global Leader (YGL) 2021. She is also the 2021 United Nations Kenya Person of the Year.
