Life for Kakenya Ntaiya was supposed to follow the traditional path. Engaged at age 5, she was to undergo FGM (female genital mutilation) by the time she was a teenager, an event that would mark the end of her education and the beginning of her preparations for marriage. But Kakenya had a different plan. First, she negotiated with her father: she would be circumcised only if she could also finish high school. He agreed. Then she negotiated with the village elders to do what no girl had ever done: leave her Maasai village of Enoosaen in south Kenya to go to college in the United States. She promised that she would use her education to benefit Enoosaen. The entire village collected money to pay for her journey. Kakenya received a scholarship to Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Virginia. She went on to the University of Pittsburgh, where she received her Doctorate in Education in 2011. While completing her studies in the U.S., she married and had two children. In 2013 Kakenya was honored with the Global Women’s Right Award from the Feminist Majority Foundation and was recognized by Women in the World as a “Woman of Impact”. Kakenya was honored with a Vital Voices Global Leadership award in 2008 and as a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2010. Read her full bio here.
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