Background
Musimbi Kanyoro (née Angogo) was born 30 November 1953 the fourth daughter of Dina Nyagoha and Thomas Angogo in South Nyanza Kenya. She attended the Alliance Girls High School and the University of Nairobi for her undergraduate work and did her Masters and PhD at the University of Texas in Austin. Musimbi was a visiting scholar in Hebrew and the Old Testament studies at Harvard Divinity School and obtained a Doctor of Ministry in Feminist Theology at the San Francisco Theological Seminary. Musimbi began her involvement with the global agenda of the United Nations at the Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi, 1985 where she played a leading role on the national host committee. Moving to Geneva, Switzerland in 1988, she then went on to play a key role in the preparation for and execution of the NGO participation in the five major United Nations conferences of the 1990s: Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, 1992, World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, 1993, International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Cairo, 1994, Commission for Social Development World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 1995, Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995.
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