Sofia Kabibi Tumaini is an environmental scientist by training and a certified expert in Climate Adaptation Finance from the Frankfurt school of Finance and Management. She has a B.Sc. Environmental Science from Egerton University and currently an M.Sc. student at Pwani University, Kenya. She has over 7 years’ experience in the development work having worked at WWF Kenya as the project assistant Energy and Climate and Marine project officer leading the Lamu Mangrove Conservation Project and an-EU funded project that seeks to enhance the resilience of small-scale fisheries for improved livelihoods, food security , blue growth and income.