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UWaterloo Environment Alumni Award Winner Wanjiku Chiuri

2020 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award recipient: Wanjiku Chiuri Dr. Wanjiku Chiuri (Ph.D. ’96) is an environmental scholar, researcher and consultant who has married her passions for education, gender equity and the environment to establish herself as a leading expert in gender and development. Deputy vice-chancellor of Academic, Research and Student Affairs and associate professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Earth Sciences at Laikipia University in Kenya, Wanjiku led the charge to create the first daycare for female students and staff.  She also applies her expertise and knowledge to an impressive scope of consultancy projects, serving as a gender mainstreaming expert and a gender trainer in various sectors including environment, agriculture, and education.  Combining community development and academia has been a hallmark of her many successful initiatives, which include leading a tree nursery initiative, providing gender expertise to Roots, Tubers and Bananas, a food-security research collaborative, and supervising one of the most successful, nearly 100 percent female, cooperatives in Kenya.