Our Board of Directors

Leah Nyalobo

Founder & Executive Director

Leah Nyalobo is the Founder & Executive Director of LEC community organization. She has a background in social work and community development, studied Women Leadership at the Aga khan University and currently pursuing a bachelor degree in Gender and Development at the University of Nairobi. Before founding LEC Community Organization, Leah had led programs implementation in Gender Based Violence and Child Protection in different organizations. She believes in a society where women and girls are empowered to have access to equal opportunities in our communities.

Dr. Elena Einstein

Advisory Board Member

As LEC advisory board member, Elena plays a vital responsibility in resource mobilization and monitoring of LEC’s women and girls empowerment initiative including Elena Einstein Vocational Center, which is LEC’s main program which aims at ending gender based violence in Kenya through economically empowering women with skills and providing education opportunities to girls rescued from forced marriage and teenage pregnancies and sexual exploitation of women and girls.

Elena Einstein is Director, Contracts and Grants at Universities Space Research Association (USRA), where she oversees the Contracts, Subcontract, and Procurement department. Prior to joining USRA, Elena held the role of Sr. Contracts Leader at L3 Harris Corporation in the Electronic Warfare Division managing the international and domestic contracts organization. She also held a role as Senior Contracts Manager for International and Commercial Satellite programs at The Boeing Company within Space and Missile Systems in El Segundo, CA. During her time with Boeing, she held a role as Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the Boeing Satellite Development Center (SDC) within Network and Space Systems (N&SS) in El Segundo, CA. Elena was with Boeing for over 11 years. Prior to joining Boeing, she worked as a consultant for state and local agencies providing contract services, and business analytics support. With over 20 years of experience, Elena’s expertise is in various areas of Contract Management and Negotiations, for both Domestic and International customers, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Employee Engagement, Leadership, and Management Effectiveness.

Elena is an adjunct faculty at University of La Verne teaching Diversity Management and Gender and Culture in the undergraduate and master’s program. She is also a member of the USRA DEIA committee. Elena recently co-authored a book on Women in Leadership: Work-Family Integration and is a member of the Work-Life Integration Project.

Elena’s educational background includes a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership (EDOL) from Pepperdine University. She received a Master of Science from University of La Verne, in Leadership & Management and has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Electronic Business, with a Minor in Contract Management and Law from Cal Poly Pomona University.

Sarah Rono

Board Chair

Sarah Rono is the Co-Director of LEC Community Organisation and the Board Chair. She works jointly with the Executive director and other team members in order to meet the desired mission and vision of the Organization and attain the best outcome. She pursued her Bachelor’s degree in business management and later adding a diploma in social work and community development from Co-operative University.

Ruth Shiare

Board Member

Ruth holds a Diploma in Human Resource and has additional education background in Public Relations and Leadership. Ruth has held several senior leadership roles in different organizations both private sector and public sector. Ruth has contributed immense support both at the board level giving proper guidance at leadership skills and also at the programmes level in supporting the management in training the staff on human resource capacities.

Duncan Muusya

Board Member

Duncan Muusya LLB, is an ambitious, resourceful, proactive and enthusiastic Board member of LEC Community Organization. Duncan is an astute lawyer having graduate with Bachelor of law Degree (LLB) from Mount Kenya University. He also possesses a Diploma in law from Kenya School of law and he is equally certified Court Annexed Mediator and an appointed Arbitrator. At LEC, Duncan plays a very vital role as a board member who is well versed with both domestic and international law. He does this by championing for the rights and welfare of the children, youth and women from the slums of Mathare which rights are guaranteed in Article 26(4), 27, 28, and 53 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and further embodied in other legal frames including and not limited to Children Act, 2022 and The Sexual Offences Act 2006(Laws of Kenya).

Nelly Induli

Board Member

Nelly Induli holds degree in business management and master’s degree in international relations from Daystar University. She has a wide experience in leadership capacity in both private sector, non-governmental organizations and currently in government top managerial leadership. Her leadership skills have supported LEC in networking with government services and linkages and supporting LEC management in decision making.

Jacob Viera

Board Member

Jacob Viera is United Kingdom resident and a football Administrator at Liverpool County FA level 4 football referee and he also a Board member at LEC Community Organization. He has attended Everton College and has qualification on level 1 Award in coaching football (qcf), Emergency Aid course, FA coaching disabled football, Barclay’s Premier League works and mental health awareness. In addition to this, he was able to purse modules in information technology, series certificate in computer programming and unit credit information at Zetech University.

Sophie Omutanyi

Board Member

Sophie Omutanyi is a child protection specialist with a versed experience in both international, regional and national child protections programming for over 15 years. She has a background in Social Work as her first university degree, Child Development and eventually pursued Project Planning and Management in her post graduate studies as the master’s degree at the University of Nairobi. Her knowledge in programming, child protection and Gender-Based Violence has added immense value at LEC Organization in supporting in designing and implementation of programs. She sits in the board as the Technical Advisor.