Teresa Njoroge

About this Speaker

• Vital Voices Fellow 2015 - South Africa
• EA Acumen Fellow 2016 - East Africa
• TED Women Conference Speaker 2017 - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
• Global Thinkers Forum - African Female Leader 2018 - London, UK.
• Inaugural Global Ford Foundation Fellow 2020.

Enthusiastic, innovative, self driven systemic change and social entrepreneur with over 15 years of progressive experience in economic and social justice work. Exhibiting strength in advanced problem solving skills in Women empowerment and social justice reforms.

My entrepreneurial skills has lead to the formation of many social work ventures but notably Clean Start Solutions where I am the Founder and CEO. Clean Start Solutions, is a hybrid social enterprise seeking to positively impact on chronically poor women and youth, the marginalized, reformed women and girls imprisoned and with lived prison experiences, to break the vicious cycle of a revolving door of poverty & crime, through inclusion in main stream education, entrepreneurship, advocacy and influence of policy changes.

Through Clean Start Solutions I aim to streamline social changes to alleviate chronic poverty, reduce petty crimes mostly among women and youth, while also being in the forefront of the country's restorative justice programs. To help reduce systematic legal and societal barriers against formerly imprisoned individuals, in order for them to have decent sustainable livelihoods upon completion of their sentences and release back into society.