Kakenya Ntaiya

Kakenya Ntaiya
Ntaiya in 2016
Born1978 (age 46–47)
Enoosaen, Kilgoris, Kenya
EducationRandolph-Macon Woman's College, University of Pittsburgh
Known forAnti-FGM work

Kakenya Ntaiya (born 1978) is a Kenyan educator, feminist and social activist.

She is the founder and president of the Kakenya Center for Excellence, a primary boarding school for girls in the Maasai village of Enoosaen. The first class of 30 students enrolled in May 2009. The center requires that parents agree not to subject their enrolled daughters to female genital mutilation (FGM/C) or forced marriage.

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