Dr Ruth Nekura is a feminist human rights lawyer and socio-legal researcher with 13 years’ experience working on law and policy reform, advocacy, strategic litigation, program design, implementation, management and evaluation, strategy development and knowledge leadership. She is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya, and holds an LLM (Human Rights Law) and a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Cape Town.

Ruth is a member of the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) Panel of Experts. Her work involves conducting  gender analyses of laws and implementation practices. She is passionate about substantive equality,  gender transformative approaches and invokes both structural and individual level analyses to challenge systemic inequalities using an intersectional feminist lens. She works as an independent consultant and has provided technical support to a diverse cross-section of actors including grassroots activists, national, regional and international organisations.