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Soiya Gecaga

Founder, "We The Change" Foundation

Soiya is an Acumen Fund East Africa Fellow and a Creative Visions Dan Eldon Fellow. She is the Founder and Executive Director of “We The Change” Foundation, which seeks to provide early childhood education and care to children in marginalised communities. She was born in Kenya and graduated from Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.) She holds a MA degree in Modern History from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) and a Diploma of Law and a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law in London. She has worked as solicitor specialising in charity law for Bates Wells & Braithwaite and as a solicitor specialising in corporate law for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. She has also worked for The United Nations High Commission for Human Rights in Geneva, Nyumbani (an orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS in Kenya), and Mother Teresa’s home for the destitute and dying in Calcutta. You can follow her and “We the Change” Foundation on Twitter at @soiya and @wethechange2010, or on Facebook.

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