Jennifer is a Yiaku indigenous woman from Kenya with extensive experience and expertise in the areas of conflict management and preventive diplomacy, teaching and education, forest governance, human rights advocacy, and community mobilization. After an extensive teaching career, Jennifer founded and became the Executive Director for Yiaku Laikipiak Trust, an organization that promotes and protects the fundamental rights and freedom of indigenous peoples in Kenya.  She has also been a member of her districts Education Board, District Peace Committee, and is the founder of LACET College Teachers Training, a teachers college that provides capacity building for teachers across her county and the nation at large.  She fought hard to gain a government political position to be able to represent her people in decision making institutions, and became an Hon. Member of Laikipia County Assembly. As the current Africa Focal Point for the Global Forest Coalition, she provides tutelage in fostering sustainable efforts for forest conservation in Africa. She supports support the work of the Global Forest Coalition in ensuring the eradication of tree Monoculture plantations and leading a campaign for the reinstitution of the rights of forest dependent communities to land and forest tenure.