Nick Oketch has six years’ experience in the nonprofit and volunteer sectors. He is inspired to fight for and advance gender equality, youth development, and sexual health rights. Nick’s work entails youth rights advocacy and capacity building for young women and adolescents and environmental conservation initiatives. He is currently an International Associate, Wagner College New York, 2018 Mandela Washington Fellowship fellow; UNLEASH Lab 2017 SDG Talent, Women Deliver Young Global Leader, Johnson and Johnson Global Fellow, and YALI Regional Leadership Center East Africa alumnus. Nick is also the Co-founder of the Paradigm Youth Network Organization in Kenya, an organization aiming to break the culture of silence on sex and sexuality among young people ages 13-24. He holds Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a certificate in Global Health from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States.
