Irene Mwendwa wants to make the internet safer for women leaders

Irene Mwendwa wants to make the internet safer for women leaders

Irene Mwendwa hails from Machakos, a small village nestled in the Eastern part of Kenya, about 63 kilometres southeast of Nairobi, the country’s capital. The name means flowers. She carries this with her: the bloom, the light, the beauty that flowers bring into spaces. She describes herself as a farmer, a firstborn, a young African woman trying to survive in Nairobi. She is also a tech lawyer who has spent years documenting how the internet puni…