Mildrer Ngesa

Award winning kenyan journalist

Mildred Ngesa is a seven-time award winning journalist from Kenya with over fourteen years experience as a human interest features writer and a columnist. She has had the opportunity to work as a reporter and a columnist for all the three mainstream print media houses in Kenya: The Kenya Times, The East African Standard and until recently, The Daily Nation where as a senior special projects writer, she consistently reported on social injustices and pushed for transparency and accountability in government through a weekly one-page column titled "Monday Mix- where wisdom comes quietly".  It is through her efforts in this column that in June 2008, Mildred was appointed to serve at the Commission of Inquiry into Post-elections Violence (CIPEV) as a the Media &  Communications  officer  - a commission that investigated the unfortunate bloody conflict that erupted in Kenya after the disputed elections of December 2007. Currently, Mildred is the founder and executive director of an alternative pro-active media organization titled PEACE PEN COMMUNICATIONS that seeks to re-define the role of the media in investigating social change, building peace and conflict resolution as well as building and sustaining resilient communities through media.