As a Contracts & Grants Manager at Luminate, Stephanie offers critical contributions to the legal and grants management teams. Stephanie’s work focuses on due diligence, compliance, project coordination, capacity building, knowledge management, and enhancing contracts and grantmaking operations to support the organisation’s strategic direction and enhanced impact.

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Stephanie brings a diverse background and over a decade of expertise across communications, programme management, strategic campaigns, international human rights, and nonprofit management from local and international nonprofit organisations. She thrives within dynamic, global, and multicultural environments where she can apply her solution-oriented approach, project management skills, and keen attention to detail.

Before joining Luminate, she was the Regional Programme Lead and Campaigner for Amnesty International’s Individuals at Risk Programme in Africa, overseeing impactful human rights projects that advocated for individuals facing persecution at national, regional, and global levels.

Earlier, at the Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG), she spearheaded the organisation’s strategic communications and implemented key projects focused on anti-corruption and financial transparency. With a background in journalism, she also managed AfriCOG’s Investigative Journalism Fellowship, enhancing investigative reporting skills and promoting independent media in Kenya.

Driven by a passion for human rights, transparency, and social justice, Stephanie is committed to using her skills in grants and contracts management to empower organisations and individuals to create lasting impact.