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Charity Wayua (born 1985) is a Kenyan
chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of ...
and
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, who serves as a Research Director at International Business Machines ( (IBM), based in the Nairobi and Johanessburg area.


Background and education

Charity attended
Alliance Girls High School Alliance Girls' High School (AGHS) is a public national boarding school for girls located near the small town of Kikuyu in Kiambu County, 20 km from Nairobi. Founded in 1948 by Alliance of protestors mission.it is within walking distance fro ...
, in the town of
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, in
Kiambu County Kiambu County is a county in the former Central Province of Kenya. Its capital is Kiambu and its largest town is Thika town. Kiambu County is the second most populous county in Kenya after Nairobi County. Kiambu County borders Nairobi and Kaji ...
, where she obtained her
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, in 2002. She holds a
Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...
degree in
Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...
, from
Xavier University Xavier University ( ) is a private Jesuit university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Xavier had an enrollment of approximately 5,600 undergraduate an ...
in the United States, obtained in 2007. Her
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degree in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, was awarded in 2011, by
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, in the state of
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, United States. Her studies in the United States were sponsored by scholarships awarded by the
Zawadi Africa Education Fund
', founded and supported by
Susan Mboya Susan Mboya is a corporate executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the Principal and International Advisor for Navigators Global, a Washington DC–based consulting firm. Mboya is the founder/owner of a number of businesses in the hospi ...
, a daughter of the late
Tom Mboya Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya (15August 19305July 1969) was a Kenyan trade unionist, educator, Pan-Africanist, author, independence activist, and statesman. He was one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya.Kenya Human Rights Commiss ...
, one of Kenya's
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. The Zawadi Fund, an American 501(c)3
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, sponsors academically gifted, disadvantaged rural girls in Kenya, to study in American universities, then return to Kenya and contribute to national development.


Work experience

For a period of two years following her undergraduate degree, Charity taught undergraduate chemistry as a
teaching assistant A teaching assistant (TA) or education assistant (EA) is an individual who assists a professor or teacher with instructional responsibilities. TAs include ''graduate teaching assistants'' (GTAs), who are graduate students; ''undergraduate teach ...
, at Purdue University, at
West Lafayette West Lafayette ( ) is a city in Wabash Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Wabash and Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Tippecanoe Townships, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, approximately northwest of the state capit ...
, Indiana, until August 2009. Following the completion of her doctoral studies, she was hired by IBM as
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for the Africa region, based in
Nairobi Nairobi is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Kenya. The city lies in the south-central part of Kenya, at an elevation of . The name is derived from the Maasai language, Maasai phrase , which translates to 'place of cool waters', a ...
, the capital city of Kenya. The team of researchers that she leads are charged with developing "commercially viable technologies" that improve how governments work and serve their citizens. The work her team carried out in collaboration with the Kenyan government, between 2013 and 2014, is credited with improving Kenya's ranking on the World Bank annual Ease of Doing Business ranking, advancing by 21 spots. In June 2018, Charity Wayua was promoted to Corporate Strategy Associate at IBM, and continues to work both in Nairobi, Kenya and at corporate headquarters in Armonk,
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.


Other considerations

In September 2018, ''
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'', a Kenyan,
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, daily newspaper, named Charity Wayua, among the "Top 40 Under 40 Women in Kenya in 2018".


See also

* Gladys Ngetich *
Sianto Sitawa Marley Sianto Sikawa (born c. 1990) is a Kenyan communications and marketing professional, who has served as a tourism marketing coordinator. She is currently the assistant director of Tourism and Wildlife Narok County, one of the 47 administr ...
* Cynthia Wandia * Kagure Wamunyu


References


External links


Profile of Dr Charity Wayua
As of 2017. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wayua, Charity Living people 1985 births People from Nairobi Kamba people Kenyan scientists Xavier University alumni Purdue University College of Pharmacy alumni Alumni of Alliance Girls High School 21st-century Kenyan women scientists 21st-century Kenyan scientists Kenyan women chemists