Memory is an intersectional feminist, a women’s rights activist with over 20 years of experience working on issues of gender and development, women’s empowerment and human rights at national, regional (Africa) and international levels.    A seasoned cross-cultural thought leader and strategist bridging national, regional, global women’s rights networks with policy leaders. She is listed among Apolitical top 100 women in gender policy, SheDecides Guiding group chair, Co-chair of the NGO-CSW Africa, Co-leader of the Generation Equality Forum Action Coalition on Economic Justice, Board member of Feminist Foreign Policy Coordinating Group, Founding member of the Global Family Law Campaign and co-chair of SDG Kenya Forum a member of the Fight Inequality Steering Group, Financing for Development and the Stop The Bleeding Campaign.

Memory has extensive front line experience implementing campaigns policy advocacy initiatives advancing human rights, gender equality including the Care manifesto. She led in the development and positioning of FEMNET as a pan African feminist movement working on climate justice and the intersections with economic justice and sexual reproductive justice. She co-designed the African Feminist Climate Justice Academy and contributed to mobilizing African feminists in meaningfully engaging and participating in COP processes and the Africa Gender and Women’s Constituency. She has been exploring the impact and policy alternatives and imperatives on macrolevel economics, care economy, debt, trade and natural resource governance.

She has stood against authoritarian and neoliberal colonial systems and even called for reform of the UNCSW by co-creating the Africa Disrupt to enable more women and girls in all their diversity access to the UN. She is passionate about dismantling and disrupting patriarchy, neo-liberal systems and structures that oppress and deny women dignity.