Yvonne Oyieke (Executive Director)

Yvonne Anyango Oyieke, has over ten years’ experience in the promotion and protection of human rights with special focus on the rights of women. She has held several positions within academia and civil society in both South Africa and Kenya. She is the current Deputy Secretary-General of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers where she also convenes the working group on Women, Equality and Constitutionalism.

She holds an LLM (Jurisprudence) from the University of Pretoria and is reading for her Doctorate with the same institution’s Faculty of Law where she is exploring the role of memory within constitutional democracies. She lectured with the University of Nairobi’s Faculty of Law leading the units on Jurisprudence, Equality Law and Legal Systems and Methods. She has a keen interest in the promotion and protection of the rights of women, from an equality and non-discrimination perspective, and seeks to explore strategies on how to bridge the gap between law’s promises and society’s lived reality. Her research areas include law and society, (critical race) feminist (legal) theory, gender (in) equality and African jurisprudence.