Co-Founder overseeing fundraising, communications, library collections, governance and digital functions. She is the former executive director of Kwani Trust, East Africa’s pioneering literary journal, where, under her leadership, literary and other prizes included the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature and the Prince Claus Award for establishing a dynamic platform for new voices in African Literature.

After earning a degree in Anthropology & Law from the London School of Economics (LSE), she worked at the BBC’s African News and Current Affairs. Wachuka has held fellowships at the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts (Washington, DC) and the Obama Foundation. Her expertise spans media, popular culture and creative industries. She has served as a judge for the Caine Prize for African Writing and PublisHer Excellence Awards. She is also a publisher at Bunk Books and a director at Nairobi Litfest, Book Bunk’s annual literary festival anchored in Nairobi’s public libraries.