Lucy Mulenkei is a Maasai from Kenya who began as a broadcast Journalist in the government-run radio for 17 years on issues of the environment and development. Her programming focused on environmental problems in the rural Kenya and the East African Region.

Lucy also runs the Indigenous Information Network (IIN) in Kenya, which publishes the popular grassroots publication, Nomadic News, focusing on environmental issues and successes affecting pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in Africa. IIN also disseminates environmental information related to the indigenous movement worldwide, and organizes workshops in Nairobi to provide a platform for African indigenous people to share and discuss information and to clarify their positions with respect to important international events like the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

For the past 6 years, Lucy has been working both as a chair and coordinator of the African Indigenous Women’s Organization in the East African Region. She has coordinated the training and capacity building for indigenous rural nomadic pastoralist and hunter gatherers on environment and sustainable development with a main focus on biodiversity conservation and traditional knowledge.

Lucy has worked with more than 100 different grassroots organizations in East Africa. She has also networked worldwide with other grassroots women in Latin America, Canada and Asia respectively. At the international level she has tried to connect the grassroots women especially those from her region with the international agendas. Lucy also chairs the Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network.