Leah is a Lead EIA Expert, and a policy and programs officer with the Women Farmers Association of Kenya (WoFaAK) with over 7 years of experience in Strategic Environmental Assessment and Strategic Impact Assessment of Agricultural, Environmental, and Climate Change policies, plans, and projects/programs. She has also helped build capacities of over 2000 farmers on climate change mitigation, adaptation, environmental conservation or management, leadership and governance, resilience strategies, and green skills.

Recently as a local project coordinator with BBV-Landfrauen Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Germany, she worked on the expansion of WoFaAK activities to Central and Mt. Kenya regions: capacity building, mentorship, group mobilization, setting up County WoFaAK chapters, agribusiness and promotion of smart water for agriculture, green energy, carbon financing and markets.

Leah has a Master of Science in Environmental Science and is pursuing her PhD in Climate Change and Adaptation. She has been a part-time lecturer and has also been involved in several Climate-Smart Agricultural projects including assessing the capacity needs for upscaling climate-smart agricultural practices in Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project Counties.

She is a member of the Kenya Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP); Environment Institute of Kenya (EIK); Kenya Climate Change Working Group Association (KCCWG); and has participated in the Establishment of county CSA-MSPs and the development of the Climate Security in Agriculture training module, the Development of the online CSA-MSP M&E reporting tool; the Kenya Climate-Smart Agriculture Monitoring and Evaluation Framework;

Throughout her entire professional life, she has always been very keen to build stronger leadership and negotiation skills in the climate change space, to enable better delivery of climate ambitions, transformation, and innovations, through convergency and effective engagement of both state and non-state actors across sectors, societies and regions.