Social cleavages. Challenges. Unexpected places. How many times are people left behind simply because they did not have the opportunity to give a strong statement about their existence? How many times were they knocked down and how did they stand back up?
There are silent voices that need to be heard. When is a better moment to listen than NOW?
We introduce TEDxKamitiPrison: an event to showcase the amazing and often unheralded work that goes on within and beyond the walls of prison.
Speakers
Speakers may not be confirmed. Check event website for more information.
Alexander McLean
Alexander McLean is the founder of African Prisons Project, a Uganda-based organization working to improve the lives of men, women, and children living in African prisons through healthcare, education, access to justice and community reintegration.Angela Lungati
Angela Oduor Lungati is the Director of Community Engagement for Ushahidi and the co-founder of AkiraChix, which nurtures generations of women, building solutions for Africa using technology.Angela Oduor Lungati
Angela Oduor Lungati is the Director of Community Engagement for Ushahidi and the co-founder of AkiraChix, which nurtures generations of women, building solutions for Africa using technology.David Onyera
David Onyera is a teacher passionate about the use of education to transform prisoners and assist in rehabilitation.Joan Njogu
Joan Njogu is the Head of Programs at eLimu. At eLimu she develops extended learning content to equip learners with skills for the 21st century. She is also involved in taking eLimu to schools and libraries, training teachers and pupils on how to use technology and the eLimu app in the classroom.Ken Oolo
Ken Oolo runs an organization called Filamujuani, which means Films in the Sun in Kiswahili, that teaches the youth from vulnerable communities to tell their own stories in their own way. The youth in the project create their own television shows. They create television shows that they would want to watch. Shows about them that they would want people to watch. They create characters and develop situations that the characters have to go through. They choose the heroes and the villains in their stories.Odin Olaya
Odin Olaya is the training director at Technical Community Training Institute in partnership with Africa Initiative for Rural Development. In this program AiRD and TCTI train youth from the slums in market driven skills, especially in the construction and in the renewable energy sectors.Patrick Mwenda
Patrick K. Mwenda is the officer in charge of Naivasha Maximum Prison in Kenya. Naivasha has focused on using education as a tool to rehabilitate its inmates.Peter Ouko
Peter Ouko has been at Kamiti Prison for the last 17 years for alleged murder of his wife, a crime he says he did not commit. Ouko says crime is sometimes attractive, and the reason he set up ‘Crime Si Poa’ to discourage young people from becoming criminals.William Okumu
William Onyango Okumu is an inmate at Kamiti Prison in Nairobi, currently studying for his degree in law. William is also a writer and poet, and says poetry saved him while he was on death row. He now teaches and inspires other inmates, and is putting together a collection of his writings into a book.Organizing team
