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Kagure Wamunyu, is a Kenyan
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,
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and the CEO and Co-Founder of Jumba, a construction tech start-up that is simplifying purchase and financing of construction materials in Africa. Previously, Kagure worked as the Global Head of Operations at Kobo360, an African freight logistics startup. She also served as the Senior Director of Strategy for Bridge International Academies in East Africa and as the Country Manager for Uber in Kenya.


Background and education

Kagure 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
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, where she obtained her
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. She holds a
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degree in
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, from
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in the state of
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, in the United States, obtained in 2013. The same year, she graduated from
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, with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree. She went on to obtain a
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degree in City and Regional Planning, from the
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, in 2015. As of November 2018, she was registered as a part-time PhD student at the
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, in the United Kingdom. Her doctoral focus is Sustainable Urban Development. Her studies in the United States were partly sponsored by scholarships awarded by the ''Zawadi Africa Education Fund'', founded and supported by Dr Susan Mboya, 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

After several part-time engagements in the United States, while at university, Kagure returned to Kenya in 2015. She was appointed as Head of Operations at Uber Kenya, based in Nairobi. After a period of nearly two years in that role, she was promoted to the position of Country Manager for Uber in Kenya, at the age of 27 years. In August 2017, she left Uber to take up a position as Senior Director of Strategy at Bridge International Academies. In September 2018,
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, a Kenyan,
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, daily newspaper, named Kagure Wamunyu, among the "Top 40 Under 40 Women in Kenya in 2018". In March 2019, Kagure joined Kobo360 where she is charged with the launch and growth of the company across Africa.


Honors and awards

She has been honored with the following awards: * 2013 Honoree :The Pamela Mboya Award by Zawadi Africa Education Fund * 2013 Honoree : Who is Who in American Colleges and Universities * 2011 Honoree : Sharon D. Banks Award by the Women in Transportation Organization * 2010 Honoree : Outstanding Leadership Award by Meredith International Association.


See also

* Gladys Ngetich * Cynthia Wandia * Charity Wayua


References


External links


Nairobi’s female slum dwellers march for sanitation and land rights
As of 29 October 2014. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wamunyu, Kagure Living people 1989 births People from Nairobi Kamba people Kenyan civil engineers Meredith College alumni University of North Carolina alumni UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of Alliance Girls High School 21st-century Kenyan women engineers 21st-century Kenyan engineers 21st-century Kenyan people