Afro-feminist Writer, Digital Rights Advocate & Grassroots Community Organizer (Kenya)
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Maureen’s (external link) work examines how digital infrastructures reproduce and intensify existing social inequalities. She challenges the assumption that digital spaces are inherently democratic, exposing instead how data extraction, surveillance, and market-driven technologies mirror and often deepen systems of exclusion.
Through the Digital Rights Mtaani (DRIM) initiative, Maureen (external link) bridges digital rights advocacy and grassroots community organizing in Kenya. Her work documents how marginalized communities, particularly those excluded along lines of class, gender, sexuality, and disability, navigate and resist regimes of surveillance and extraction shaped by AI and platform capitalism.
As an AfaRise Fellow, Maureen (external link) interrogates AI, platform capitalism, and “tech feudalism,” advancing collective strategies to reclaim digital space as a site of resistance, political education, and shared knowledge-building.
