Rose Mukonyo
Rose Mukonyo is an award winning multimedia journalist working with the Standard Group PLC in Kenya, based in Machakos County since 2016. She is the Radio Maisha reporter covering Lower Eastern part of Kenya, working for both Radio and Print. She is passionate about science matters particularly health, climate, environment, women and human rights, as well as agriculture.
Rose who is also an Alliance for Science Fellow 2019 has gone through various training with different organizations, such as AWIM, AMREF Africa, Journalists for Human Rights JHR, NCDAK, NDI and UNESCO, devoting her time to learn more about safety and other health related issues and uses the skills learnt to help educate people in her community.
She holds an Arts Bachelor’s Degree in English and Literature from Mt Kenya University, a 2015 graduate. She is a 2018 OFAB Award winner for the Best Radio reporter on Agriculture Biotechnology reporting.
Rose delights herself in doing what’s best for her community, by being a messenger of hope especially to the poor and marginalized, the sick, the farmers, women and the larger population as a whole, by highlighting real issues that affect her audience. By being factual and presenting evidence-based stories. In her career, she has learned the art of solution based approach to her stories which have had a great and positive impact on her audience.
